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Date Posted: 18:10:07 07/24/02 Wed
Author: stephanie baroniunas
Subject: 9/11

As I was reading some of the messages on the board, I could not help but get upset. Fortunately, I did not lose a loved one that day but I was there. I work on Water Street and heard the first plane hit, saw it sticking out from the side of the tower, paper flying everywhere. It looked like a ticker-tape parade. I actually witnessed the second one hit and fell to my knees in my office. It was awful. I will never forget what I felt and saw that day. When the first tower collapsed, I thought the world was coming to an end. Never had I heard such a sound. I have to admit that I still find myself crying when I see something related to that day. However, I do take comfort in the fact that the people of the city were amazing that day. People were freaked out but there was a calmness in the air. There weas no chaos. All people wanted to do was get as far away from downtown as possible. For a city made up of hundreds of different races and ethnicities, we were all the same that day. Just human beings. People were helping each other, cabbies pulled over, raised the volumes of their radios and scores of us stood listening trying to make some kind of sense about what was happening. Some stores dragged T.V's out to the street and we watched the horrible things that were happening in the rest of the country. There were so many little heroes that day. The people who let others get in front of them on phone lines or gave quarters to those who had no change. I was really proud to be a native New Yorker that day and continue to be.

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