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I remember 9/11/01 very well. I got up at 6:45 like I usually do and sometime around 7:00 I turned on the TV and it was showing the smoke coming from the one tower. At that time the announcers didn't know that it was caused by a plane hitting it. They suspected that it could have been a bomb like the first attack in 1994. Then the second plane came. I remember thinking for a brief half a second that the towers must be pretty tall for a plane to be flying by. Then it hit. I almost didn't know what to think. I watched the rest of that morning until I left for school and saw the towers collapse. I remember going to school that day and everyone talking about it. There were some people who hadn't even heard about it. We had two minutes of silence that morning and there was a TV set up in the library for students to watch while out of class. <br /> <br />For those of you who don't know, besides being a railfan, I'm also a toy train collector. Earlier that week I had bid on a tinplate O gauge Marx SP diesel set on ebay. The auction ended on the morning of September 11th and I won the item. I had no idea when I bid on it that that train would end up being something more than just another train in my collection. <br /> <br />9/11 will become for my generation the equivelant of the "Where were you when Kennedy was assinated?" for the baby boomers. The world's certainly changed a lot since then. 50 years from now people will still be talking about what they were doing on that day. <br /> <br />I'll certainly think back when Thursday comes and I'll be sure to give that Marx train a run. May God bless all the families and friends of the victims!
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