NYC has changed The shock and grief about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are hard to express. The students at my son's and daughter's school built a small but heartfelt memorial of flowers and candles -- and Patricia Fuller posted the following, beautiful words on CompuServe's Writers Forum the day after. Posted with her permission: #: 1057403 S1/Writers Central [WRITERS] 12-Sep-01 07:52:08 Sb: #1056931-Terrorism in the US Fm: Patricia Fuller 112764,273 To: Carol Krenz 104576,1132 Message text written by Carol Krenz >My heart goes out to anyone who is affected directly, not knowing where family or friends are. I watched it happen from the start from the moment news morning shows cut away because the first plane had hit the first tower -- saw the plane as it attacked the second tower, and then stayed with events all day. < I was waked up by it this morning. My clock radio went off at about 8:50 and the first phrase I heard was ". . . World Trade Center on fire." I thought it was a local New York thing. I had no inkling. I live in a section of Brooklyn that is just across the river from lower Manhattan. I went outside with a pair of binoculars. I live on a street that is line-of-sight to the WTC and I could see the flames and the huge cloud of black smoke. I kept watching and I still thought: terrible accident. Then, the second plane.