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Dansy, did you write that? It's beautiful. Where was I? I was taking care of my 83(at that time)year old aunt and uncle. Dorothy and I were going to the store or the doctors and I had turned on FOX to catch the news while she was finishing up.

Several things stand out about that morning, it was a beautiful day - you couldn't have asked for better. Taxman had been down that weekend for my birthday and had told me that he had an appointment that morning with one of the congress critters, so he would have been on his way to DC proper about the time that the Pentagon was hit.

And my aunt sitting there, stunned, repeatedly saying this can't be happening in my country. Uncle Joe, who had fought in the South Pacific during WWII, his disbelief in what was happening. We were glued to the tv all day. Needless to say, we didn't leave the house. It took forever to get through to Taxman, all of the lines into and out of DC were tied up.

I had no way to get to a computer and find out what was happening to friends around the country, especially on the east coast. I am on Paltalk a good bit, in the American Conservative, Patriots of the Republic and FReeper Hangout. It's horrible to be cut off from your friends when something like this is going on. No one to talk to about it and no way to let your emotions free themselves.

I remember the awful feeling of terror, fear, disbelief, shock, horror, horrible, horrible hatred for the people who perpetrated this on my country. There were people, that day, from every corner of the globe in that building or its environs.

Although we lost the most people and it was on our soil, we weren't the only ones to suffer that day.

FR lost FReepers, people that we only knew by their screen names. FReepers lost loved ones, friends, neighbors - there wasn't a family in this country that didn't know or have someone connected with the four flights that ended so tragically.

Dansy, everyone - I had heard the stories of how my Momma and people from her generation felt after Pearl Harbour. I never thought I would experience anything like it or that my son would ever seen anything like it. I pray we never see anything like it again.

Dansy, everyone - I had heard the stories of how my Momma and people from her generation felt after Pearl Harbour. I never thought I would experience anything like it or that my son would ever seen anything like it. I pray we never see anything like it again.

That was the exact impression that my Mom had - her first words when I called her were that she never thought she would see anything like Pearl Harbor again. So sad for our older folks that they had to live through a horror like this - twice.

Yes, that is my verse. It is the best way I can express myself when I have such strong feelings.

Thank you for sharing your story with us (((((dixie sass)))))