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my name is a specialist Arthur Allen ,

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I'm with bravo company 3142 out of new

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york Army National guard , I am a U . H

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60 Crew chief , 15 tango that day

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obviously I was much younger . Um , as

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most of us were at that moment , you

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don't really know when your parents are

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gonna make it home and when she finally

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did come home , you know , we kind of

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saw the aftermath of what or me being

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young , I saw the aftermath of what she

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went through , you know , single mother ,

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uh always out , you know , coming

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commuting into the city . Uh for that

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day , for whatever reason , she decided

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to take an early lunch break . She

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never takes an early lunch break . She

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was about maybe a block away when that

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first plane hit and that was her office ,

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she saw the towers falling , she

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immediately started to run , took her

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shoes off , had to run and it was just

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a rolling train of ash , smoke debris

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and she basically had to walk from new

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york city back to Long Island on foot

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only to get home roughly about midnight

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one a.m. You know covered and all the

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ash and debris of the buildings and she

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kind of gave me a brief piece of wisdom

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and that was , you know , get out into

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the world , get to meet people , get to

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know people , you know , become a good

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person because that will get you

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farther in life than anything else that

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you may hang on to