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9/11- I wonder how many other blogs are out there like this one today. You know 5 years later thinking about where I was the day the Twin Towers came down. I remember it was a surreal day.

It was probably the nicest day of the year just like today. I had the day off which I normally wouldn't. I had just come home from my girfriends house (who later would become my wife) and had crawled back into bed. I through the TV on to catch the Today show after listening to the news on the radio that a small private plane had just struck the Towers. So I switched the TV on and figured I would watch as I dozed and then I saw the second plane hit.

My grandparents lived downstairs at the time so I went to see what they were doing and they were glued to their TV's. My grandfather and I sat wide eyed watching the day unfold, seeing people run around, covered in dust after watching the buildings fall. My neighbor at the time used to go to lower Manhattan everyday and he was actually running towards my house screaming that the buildings were on fire. He came in just in time to see the first tower pancake to the ground. He actually spun in a circle and then sat at our feet watching the buildings and the smoke.

My Grandfather watched with his jaw on the floor. He thought he was watching the end of the world. He wasn't the type of grandfather who didn't know what was going on he was very with it. He thought he was seeing the begining of the 3rd world war, and he was really bothered by that as he remembered WWII. He said he was tired of seeing the death and destruction in the world. He remembered watching the building go up and like me couldn't believe that somethign that big would come down.

SwanE came by the house in the later afternoon and he my father, my grandparents and I were glued to the tv set. I remember that there wasn't a car on the road, adn they were telling people to stay off the roads because of my towns proximity to the airport. Melissa was in White Plains, NY at the time and was ready to get home, as she was getting scared.

A few days later I was washing my car in my drive way and an old lady was walking down the street. She stopped to talk to me about how nice the car looked and asked me my age. I told her my age and she said she was sorry for me. I asked her why. She explained "with the state of affairs in our world, I would probably be drafted and killed in a war soon". Scary thought.

For the next few weeks I was glued to USATODAY.com wathcing all the interactive graphics as to what happenend, and how it happened.

3 years later my cousin was married on that day. She said she wanted to turn a day of sadness into a day of happiness. I am not sure she has accomplished that. I remember her anniversary, although remembering what happened on 9/11/01 is much more vivid then her wedding.