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9 /11


I was in Germany on 9/11. I turned on CNN to watch the afternoon news when I heard the report about the first plane hitting the world trade center. They thought it was some kind of terrible accident. I saw the 2ND plane hit the WTC live on CNN. It felt like the beginning of the end of the world. I called Juergen on the phone. He was in a meeting. They stopped the meeting. Everything stopped. None of us could believe this was happening. How could this happen? We wondered if we could ever feel safe again. I watched the news nearly every minute of the day. I found myself waking at 3am to watch the news, as if something new was going to happen. Finally we just pulled the plug on our TV. We turned the TV off for two years. I red my news on the computer once a day. The whole thing was making me crazy. I was very sad, but I needed to keep on living. I did not die on 9/11...
They just arrested some terrorist in Germany. Who knows, perhaps we now live in the new ground zero? I hope not, but is any place safe after that awful September day? We can not live in fear. Fear only robs us of our peace. It steals our lives from us. God knows the number of my days. He will be the one who controls my future.

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