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This sort of grief is still hard, yes? So I thought maybe we could share a little of where we were, and what we were doing, when we first became aware of the nightmare of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

I woke up that morning and, like every morning, fired up my computer. The first thing I saw, on the Yahoo home page, were fresh images of the just-hit towers, the billowing gray smoke enveloping their tops.<\/p>\n

My brain couldn\u2019t quite register what my eyes were telling it.<\/p>\n

I instantly craved more information. The Internet seemed to be choking around any of the typical sites you\u2019d go to for that kind of news. So I dug a little deeper, and ended up on some sort of live message board where people inside the towers at that time were frantically posting all kinds of messages from their cell phones. It was horrifying reading. It made me physically ill. I\u2019ve begun crying just now remembering it.<\/p>\n

When were you first aware of what happened on 9\/11? Where were you? What was your experience with it?<\/p>\n

Bless you all. Bless us all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"