Edward Briggs Research Paper

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One early morning on the day september 9th, 2001. Edward Briggs, a 25 year old firefighter was up all night on night. His intuition was kicking, just telling him, “something is going to happen today.” His 6am alarm clock went off and he had realized he had been sitting in the same spot for hours. He finally gets up to use the restroom and his legs feel like jello for how long he”d been sitting. Afterwards he sat on the couch and turn the TV on and slowly drift off to sleep.

While Edward was sleep, terrible things started to occur in the U.S. 4 international airplanes took flight and was being controlled by terrorist. Two planes crashed in NYC, one in Washington D.C. and last one never reached its intended target. At the time all the planes

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