Today marks the 6th anniversary of 9-11. It still seems like it happened only yesterday. This one event changed all of our lives in some way forever. There are not too many things that have done that over the years.
I can still remember where I was when I heard about the attack. I was a junior in college at the time. Me & my friend Jill carpooled from Paragould to school everyday. She had an 8 a.m. class, so I went early to study before our next class at 9:15 a.m. There I sat in the break room of LSE at Arkansas State dilligently studying my biochem. Someone came running in the room scaring the bejesus out of the 5 of us in there. They kept talking about the Twin Towers & how a plane had flew into them.
My intial reaction was that they were lying. I mean, how many freaking planes fly near those towers everyday? I called Jonathan to see if there was any merit to this. I called him right after the second plane hit. I couldn’t believe it. I literally started crying when he was describing it to me.
I had to go to class & my horrible biochem professor made us have class as normal- even though none of us paid any attention to her that day. After class, we immediately ran to my friend Amanda’s dorm room to watch the coverage. It was surreal. We turned it over right before the 1st tower fell.
I still cannot get the images of people jumping out of the towers or covered in soot after they fell. So many innocent people lost their life that day- & for what? What also upsets me is the many soldiers that have lost their lives since that day. They are fighting a war that cannot be won. Terrorism- as horrible as this thought is- will ALWAYS be a threat to our country. No matter how hard we try to break up the radical cells of terrorists out there, we will not succeed.
The entire world is different because of 9-11. My daughter doesn’t know what it’s like to live in a world free of war & the constant threat of terroist attack. We are just waiting until the next 9-11. Many analyists say that it’s not if but when is it going to happen. All I know is that I will not let the terrorists affect my life. I will live everyday to the fullest & continue to travel. We as a country will always remember those who died & continue to honor their memory.
Poignant and nicely written.
Thank you.
Like you…like the rest of the sentient, thinking world, I remember this day as it unfolded six years ago. .
As I entered the fourth hour of being glued to my TV, I was desperate to find something redeeming rise from the ashes of the WTC, the Pentagon and in that field in rural Pennsylvannia.
I believe I saw the Phoenix…for a little while, anyway. I wanted to see it. I guess I “needed” to see it.
Emotional salve for my emotional wounds.
It should come as no surpirse then that the scar healed rough.
I wrote about this day and my perception of it in my blog , too.
I’ll never forget the significance of Septemeber 11th.
Then again, I can’t even see the date of November 22nd without thinking of a young president, his lovely First Lady, an easier, more innocent time and the cold, windy day in Dallas that seemed to stop time, progress and life as we knew it.
LK
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we need to find the real culprits so that this can be stopped !