Ms. Cooney

I was putting my laundry away and my friend called and told me to put the TV on. Another friend called and asked if he was watching a movie and what was going on. I sat there for awhile, then headed downstairs to my friend's room. We sat there for awhile and watched. We then moved to the Loyola Student Center, which had been our place amongst the busy metropolis of Bangkok, Thailand. It was 9:30 at night and our only connection was CNN and everytime the feed went out we would hold our breath. No one could get through on the phone, so we sat, watched and waited. The real shock came later, days and weeks later when we would run into people in Thailand who thought the attacks where justified and OK. Two months later, on November 11th we landed in NYC and returned to our lives. I always wonder what it would have been like to have been in the United States.