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I was driving my daughter to school and listening to Howard Stern on the radio. Howard was interviewing a friend over the phone when Howard and his crew started saying "Oh my god, a plane has hit the WTC....OMG, OMG....I wasn't sure if it was a joke or not...the person on the phone didn't believe Howard...he thought it was some sort of joke too....finally Howard said "you can see the WTC from your balcony....walk over to your balcony and look"....a few seconds later...a shaky voice said "OMG ,OMG it's real...I have to go". By that time I was in the driveway and rushed up to our office to tell my husband. He said someone had told him about it...but he thought it was just a small plane or something...no big deal...so we turned on the TV in time to see the second plane hit.
I then continued to watch as I tried to calm down a couple people I know on ICQ who couldn't get through on phone lines and were trying to contact people via ICQ for any additional information. One persons husband worked at the Pentagon (he ended up safe) and another had a son who worked at the WTC. The son had worked for the same company for 3 years and never missed one day of work. He went in sick or well and never even took a vacation day. For some reason on that particular day he woke up not feeling very good and decided to take his very first day off of work. That decision saved his life.
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