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She felt it was important for them to see what she experienced. While visiting New York that year, Padilla took pictures to share with the school’s yearbook staff. “When we saw the only thing that was coming out of that area was smoke, because the smoke was still in the air, it was just an enormous sad feeling when we were going over there and trying to land at LaGuardia Airport.” We knew we were in New York because we would see the Twin Towers shining from above because they were such tall buildings,” she said. “I was flying into the island of Manhattan, and when I looked out of the airplane I was so sad, because every year we would come we would see the Twin Towers. She said it was easy to feel the weight of attack when flying into the city due to the absence of the Twin Towers from the World Trade Center. In November 2001, Padilla made her annual trip to New York. We just got together and prayed for all those people that were losing their lives at that time.” We didn’t know whether it was a hoax or not, but as pictures came out from the television network stations, we saw that it was real,” she said. Padilla said she could tell the students at Memorial Middle School were in a similar state of awe and confusion. I felt so bad for all those people that lost their lives, for all the people that were running away from their buildings because they lived close to the World Trade Center, I was in utter shock.” When I heard that news, my heart fell to the ground. New York City had been my home for every Thanksgiving since 1985. “Never would I have thought that it was a big airline carrier that had crashed into the World Trade Center. That’s the only thing that came into my mind,” she said. “I thought to myself that it’s probably a small aircraft.
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