I remember

         Do you recall where you were at? I do and I always will. I was lying in bed and my radio came on. The DJ said something close to "We will return to the plane crash in the towers and the fire at the Pentagon in a moment." I remember lying there with one eye open thinking, did he say what I think he said? I reached for the phone called my mother. "Um.. the radio said some plane hit a building in New York and the Pentagon is on fire." She hung up as she screamed for my father to turn on the TV. And I turned on mine.

         And got real pale real fast I'm sure. I saw two buildings with smoke pouring out of them and I had a difficult time leaving the room to wake up Brandon. Of all the times I've ever gone to wake him up, he has never jumped out of bed before. It must have been my voice. "Brandon you need to see this."

         And when we got back to my room one tower was gone. And it took a few recaps for it to sink in to me that it had collapsed. All I remember thinking was; Isn't there suppose to be two of those?"

         In the time before the second one collapsed I thought how weird it would look if it didn't. This tower sticking out of this gray cloud of debris and dust.

         And as I was on the phone to Joe. "Did you see that?" We both said at the same time the second tower fell.

         And I was in shock for over a year. I couldn't think about the dead. I could only think about the end of those beautiful buildings. That's how I dealed. I didn't think of the dead. Maybe I still deal that way. But I think I'm better now at talking my kids about it.

         And I will never forget.