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and we were walking away from the

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building and he said , mom look up in

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the mommy look up in the sky and there

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was smoke coming from the other side of

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the building The

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morning of

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September 11 started like any other

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work day . I was in the Office of the

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Secretary of Defense , I worked on

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resource issues for the policy

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organization in the Defense Department .

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I remember many things about that day ,

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I think one of the earliest things was

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again having the sense of not knowing

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what was happening and so opening up

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the door to the corridor , seeing

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people running , not sure why knowing

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something that happened in new york ,

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knowing it was planes , but not really

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connecting the dots In my case ,

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probably the most important thing to

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know about September 11 is that my son ,

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my oldest child now , my only son at

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the time was in the childcare center

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and so I knew exactly where I needed to

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go when I exited the building , I

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picked him up , he's a about two years

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old at the time and we were walking

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away from the building and he said ,

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mom look up and then mommy look up in

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the sky and there was smoke coming from

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the other side of the building . You

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know what's really remarkable about

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September 11 , everyone in the pentagon

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that day who was exiting did so uh they

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were looking out for each other , they

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did so very , very orderly way , people

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weren't running past each other , they

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were making sure everyone was walking

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in the right direction in my case

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because I knew I was going to pick up

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my son at the child care center . I

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remember one of my co workers as I was

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exiting the building said , go get that

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baby . You know , people were very much

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looking out for their for their fellow

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person and then after the attack , in

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the immediate minutes after , of course ,

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you heard the stories of heroism for

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those who were on the side of the

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building that was hit people helping

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other people get out of the disaster

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area . The first responders arriving

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very quickly on scene .

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Mhm .