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My clock radio sounded that morning to get me out of bed and ready for work. But instead of music, there was a news woman reporting of a skyscraper being struck by an airplane. I soon had an uneasy feeling in my stomach, due the tone in the woman's voice. I quickly turned on the television. From the footage shown at that time, I couldn't recognize the city that this was taking place in. I kept reading the graphics on the screen hoping it would tell me the name of the city. I had then noticed the words "World Trade Center".
Knowing now that this terrible scene was taking place in New York. I started to listen to the reporter more intently. I remember the reporter asking someone if it was possible that the navigation system on the plane was faulty. That just goes to show you how naive American's were. Not long after we had been watching, the second tower was struck. I remember the chilling feeling of watching that happen. It will haunt me the rest of my life. That's when the phone started to ring. Family was calling to see if we were watching this. Being a weekday, I somehow had to pull myself together and get ready for work. I don't remember getting ready but I do remember driving to my job in the Berge Ford advertising department. I was listening to a reporter that was at the Pentagon. During his report, he felt the building shake and heard an explosion. He knew something had happened but wasn't sure what it was. Not long after that, he was told that another plane had also struck the Pentagon. At this time I had the urge to turn the car around and head back home. But I was almost to work and we had a television up in our advertising office. I quickly made it to work was first to arrive in our two man advertising opperation. By this time the news was going back and forth between Washington and NYC. Showing images of smoke billowing out of the Pentagon and in NYC, the image of both towers with large lacerations gaping from high above the ground. I remember the reports and images of people leaping from the buildings. It was all such a nightmare. Then the unthinkable occured. The 2nd tower that was struck began to collapse. My partner Jeff Kogan then came into the office, we both just were in complete shock. The next bit of information that was reported was that another flight was hijacked and headed towards Washington D.C. We then heard about that plane crashing in PA. The footage of the World Trade Center Tower collapsing was running over and over again. The NYC skyline was covered in dust. Feeling like this couldn't get any worse, the other tower then collapsed. We continued to watch the reports on the televison all morning. We got very little work done. I remember we had an advertising meeting later that morning. The mood in the meeting was very somber. Nobody was thinking at all about work. After the meeting, Jeff canceled a radio ad were were going to run about "prices falling" with the sound of bombs dropping. I remember it didn't take long for our flag to drop to half mass. Jeff and I ended up going home shortly after our meeting. We couldn't think straight. Every year on this day we re-live the horrifing events of sept. 11, 2001. I can't imagine how people that lost loved ones to these events must feel, seeing the footage all over again every year. I'm thankful for the men and women fighting for our freedoms and doing their duty to protect our country from things like this ever occuring again. We will never forget those who lost their lives in the events that took place 7 years ago today.