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I was 11 when 9/11 happened. I never heard of the World Trade Center before that day. I remember that day vividly as a kid growing up in Illinois. I remember I was late to school that morning and had to go around the front instead of going in through the side doors as they were locked. I was in 5th grade and we had just finished learning to play the recorder. As we put it away, our homeroom teacher returned to our home classroom and spoke to our music teacher. Even though they spoke quietly, I didn't think much about it initially.
Then, our teacher announced to my class that were were gonna watch TV. I thought, cool, we were gonna watch the Cartoon Network! On the old school TV hanging in the corner ceiling in my classroom, I was not expecting what I saw. This big huge building on fire with a big gaping hole in the top. What was even more chilling was watching people falling from that big building. Initially, I thought it was just a big fire that had happened until I saw the second plane hit the South Tower as it happened on live TV.
Even though I was young, I knew that planes didn't just fly into buildings like that. What was even crazier was after my mom had picked my younger brother and me up from our schools, I saw the long lines of cars waiting outside gas stations. I remember calling my grandma on one of the brick cellphone my mom had about what I had seen. But I would not understand the full impact on that area until years later.
In 2014, I met my now husband and moved to Eastern Pennsylvania. He is from New Jersey and was in a county (I will not name) near Philadelphia. He told me that immediately after 9/11, many houses in the area where he was living at the time went abandoned. There was even a house that a husband and wife lived in with things left behind in their place that Tuesday morning they had left for work in their offices in the World Trade Center. He even knew people personally who had perished in the Towers. Seeing the events on screen is one thing, but listening to personal on-hand accounts of those events who have been there is another.
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