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I was in my office, I believe.

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And we just were told to run down,

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down to the Mall and it was very shocking time.

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Now, my mother, let’s go back a little bit, back in 1954,

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my mother was on the floor when the Nationalists

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from Nationalist group came from Puerto Rico, was it? Yeah.

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And shot up into the crowd down there.

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My mother was in a chair there and when she got down on the floor

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it had a bullet hole in it after she got out.

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She crawled on her hands and knees back to the cloakroom

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and had looked around to see, she was a very,

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you know very good woman in, in a lot of ways

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and knew a lot and she went in there and got

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the phone off the hook and said, called her office

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and tell them that as far as I can see

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the Members from New York are okay.

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And then Elizabeth Montgomery of the Post

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did an article about her, you know on it,

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that, that very night I think it was, the next day in the Daily News.

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And that was a very sad time, but I had seen it then,

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you see, very closely, about what can happen when

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something like this occurs, a terrorist attack

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or somebody doesn't like our government or what have you.

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Then there was a lot of talk about putting up a,

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a, a, you know a, a, a screen-like around in upstairs

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in the where the all the guests are and they all said,

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“No, we can't do that.” But then let’s go back to 9/11.

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Then I, I wasn't really completely shocked

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when something happened like that because

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I had been shocked before because how I learned about it,

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and I, I don’t think I was there, I was up in,

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in 1954 I was in college, and she had them call up there

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to the college to tell the president of the college

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to tell me that she was all right.

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And that they did, but that was a tremendous shock,

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that, that was really. And of course my,

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I lost my father in ’42 and here it was something like this happening.

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But, so then we go back to 9/11, I could take it

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a little bit because first of all she wasn't there but I was.

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So we just ran down the steps and, and try to

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do the best we could to cope with the situation.

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But then we went home and didn't come back for a few days

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and until they didn't know whether it was a grouping,

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you know a large group of people might do something else again.

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And it didn't happen but you have to be on your toes all the time.