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To: Neeka who wrote (77174)	10/13/2004 2:34:28 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793752

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To: Neeka who wrote (77174)	10/13/2004 8:47:20 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793752

We heard a woman today who spoke on her experience of 9-11...She and her sister were in the WTC Marriott Hotel for the weekend before and were both to leave NYC on Sept 12th, 2001. She is a woman who in the last 30 years of her life, has been an Educator, and on a State Commission as an Educator for 11 of those years. She had EVERY person in the room riveted to her story, because it is a story that could have happened to anyone of us who were that day and who was one of the fortunate ones who lived. The way she told the story of those few days, escaping with just their lives, no purse, no money, no plastic, no ID, no clothes other than what they had on that morning....and running for their very lives. Things that many of us didn't see on TV. Her story made me think I should have my ID duplicated and inserted in my shoes, for instance... Hers is a story that would be all of ours if something similar happens in any one of us of our cities. She told some stories of how other humans reacted to the stress of the situation...most were wonderful and helpful.... For instance, I didn't know that so many people got into their own boats from surrounding communities, and came, at the great risk of their own lives, to get people away from the horror and extreme danger of that area that day. So many heroes that day. It truly is a miracle that so many people were saved that day, and a miracle that so many more weren't there, as they would have normally been.....Over 125,000 people every single day were through the WTC at that time. She talked of the horror going down the stairwell in the Marriott of smelling gasoline (one of the men in the stairwell told everyone it was airplane fuel as he had worked in aviation for years. She made us remember again what the feeling was like when the people around her heard the 2nd airplane strike the other building. They knew then it was a terror attack and not an accident. She reminded us again that no one for those first few days knew if another attack was coming. It made me realize all over again, that the problems we face now as a nation, are not 'just a nuisance.'