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To: Poet who wrote (18988)8/7/2002 9:23:42 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21057
 
Also,CNN's been playing an audiotape of a man who was working as an informant in an FBI sting operation investigating the tax assessor's office.

I heard that. And then I turned off the TV. I've been reading about plans for September 11. I'm thinking that that would be a good day for a long hike in the woods and for leaving the TV off entirely. I don't relate at all to this need to revisit the event so soon after. Maybe in five years.



To: Poet who wrote (18988)8/7/2002 1:12:14 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
I took my father to the airport that morning for his return trip home

when I got back, I didn't turn TV on, for I don't like TV and it was a relief to have the house quiet

he called soon after, grounded and at the airport, telling me what had happened and would I come right away to pick him

I got in before they closed our airport down

I saw him standing there waiting, with an armed security guard at his side

I rushed out of the car into his arms

and began to cry

it's not that I thought he was in danger

and then it hit me

that's what every one of those people who got up that morning, boarded those planes and died thought too