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Kim Kouski Research Paper

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Several days after September 11th 2001 Kim Kouski found herself in a Walgreens when Sarspangled Baner began to play. The woman behind the counter began to tear up. “I looked in her eyes, and we just cried.” Kouski said. Kouski was on her way to work, which at the time was in St. Louis, Missouri, when she heard that plane had crashed into the world trade center. “I thought it was some drunk guy in a little prop plane.” She said. It wasn’t till she was nearly to work when she heard about the second plane. “I knew everything had changed.” She said.
The day was filled with pandemonium and chaos. “My boss wouldn’t us leave. People were crying. All the radios and TV’s were on.” Kouski said. “It just wouldn’t stop.”
At one point a warning came over the radio warning people that gas would jump to 5 dollars a gallon. About double what was normal for the time. Kouski, like many others, headed to the nearest gas station. “The line was so long I thought I would run out of gas before I got to the pump.” She said. …show more content…

“It was a three hour waite to give blood.” Kouski said. She was eventually turned away. “They had more than they could handle.”
“It was almost as if we [the nation] grew up.” Kouski said. When she was in her teens she would go to the airport with friends, as a way to pass the time. “We would walk right up to the

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