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Disaster

(September' 11)

For me and million of others it was shock, when all the TV channels around the world were showing live USA tragedy. My husband worked in one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He went to the work as usual. As you know almost all jobs in New-York begin at 8.00 a.m. I was watching TV, when suddenly the usual TV program was stopped with newsflash showing as one of the World Trade Centers came over with fire, they were talking about plane that crushed into the tower, and that people who worked on the upper stories have little chance to survive. My husband worked there... all of this was happening so rapidly that I even don't remember how I got into my car and drove to the towers. But as I came there I saw the second, South Tower of the World Trade Center in fire; police had already blocked the district: they asked me to move away, because I prevented the evacuation. People were running from the towers and I stood there, looking in their faces and waiting that right away I will recognize my husband. Police asked me to move away again, as it was dangerous to stand there, so I did, and then suddenly CNN, showing the explodes, in one of the shop-windows; show people - looking out from the windows, waving white fabrics, just to show that they are still alive - waiting for a help. That moment I began to cry. The thought that my husband can be among them, horrified me. I looked up again on these two burning towers and just asked myself: "WHY". That moment The South Tower collapsed, plummeting into the streets below. I saw a massive cloud of dust drifting away from the building. "If he was alive he would phone me" - I thought. Suddenly I saw a person running from the tower, he was fully covered with dust, but something in the running manner remind me my husband; he was approaching and I was becoming more and more sure that he wasn't the one I was waiting so much. I looked up and saw second tower collapsing...

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