I know everyone is pretty busy, but I’d like to suggest that everyone, but for a moment, take pause from your busy day and remember those whom we lost on 9/11, that tragic day in 2001.
The selfless heroes who charged into the carnage to help people,
The terrified victims in the towers not knowing what, or why.
The selfless Search And Rescue folk who endured through what they found in the ensuing days.
I cannot conceive.
A few days later, I was on a flight to New England. Yes, I flew.
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The airports were an eerie kind of empty you’d only see in a Stephen King movie.
Though a week later, the newspaper racks held old papers from the 10th of September. What was important the day before, was no longer an issue this day.
My connecting flight flew over the smoking site. There were very few of us, but when someone mumbled something we couldn’t hear, we understood. Everyone got up and looked out upon the scene of tragedy.
Somberness ruled the moment.
Driving around the NE region, for the first time in my life I saw solidarity in our population.
Flags everywhere.
Written signs of condolences, frustration and revenge.
No matter where I went and who I spoke with, someone, somewhere had known someone involved. I lost several friends on the different airplanes, so I wasn’t alone.
So I’m asking for just a moment -Remember:
The victims.
Their families.
Their friends.
The nation.
In fact, I never want to forget those feelings I felt when I first saw the news broadcast that elicited my confusion and disbelief. Or what I saw in the ensuing days, or whom I spoke with. I was so moved, that the man who averages over 5,000 pictures a year forgot to take a single one.
The next time you start grumbling about that pesky airport security, take a moment to ponder. Is it really that much of an inconvenience to take an extra step to prevent additional mourning.
Just a moment is all I ask.
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12 Comments
Bruce, thanks so much for writing that. I thought about it first thing this morning…
And folks, be warned, I will be keeping a close eye on this comment thread. I do not want it spiraling down into any nastiness between Liberals/Conservatives, Republicans/Democrats or Radical Islam vs. Conspiracy theories.
Just be respectful to each other and towards the memories of those who died and their families.
Vic
I’ll never forget the sense of disbelief I felt that day. I was off from work that day and when my alarm went off and the announcer on the radio was talking about the tower on fire, I thought it was a War of the Worlds type of thing. Needless to say, I was riveted to the TV the whole day and I will never forget watching the towers fall. I only hope that all the victims of that day can find peace.
Thanks, Bruce.
The events of 9/11 were tragic in their scope and with that tragedy, any thought of invincibility on our part as a nation was lost that day. It made me proud to be an American to watch as everyone around rallied to show their new-found patriotism in remembering the heroic deeds performed that day both by rescue personnel and the passengers of Flight 93. They will all be remembered for the true Americans they are and in some cases were.
God bless the USA.
Good post. All flags at government buildings are at half mast today.
Never forget.
@ Andy
My alarm was a clock radio and I had it on a rock station at the time, which I never take seriously. But that morning they were forwarding the broadcast from a news station and the guy was talking about how the tower has collapsed, and it’s completely gone. I honestly thought it was some stupid joke by that station, until I realized it was on every station… No words can describe the feeling after realizing that it was all real…
Don’t make me cry, Bruce…don’t make me cry.
That day will forever be etched in my memory. I was driving to work, listening to 630am talk radio when a news break said that a plane hit one of the towers. I remember thinking that it was a terrible accident. But then, just minutes later, another plane hit the other tower. I almost ran off the road and knew that we have been attacked by terrorists. I’m a defense contractor and on that day, they wouldn’t allow us to go anywhere, especially when the Pentagon got hit. Truly it was “a day that will live in infamy”.
@Kahless
Yes, I remember it well. The way the Twin Towers were hit was a brutal one-two punch. My wife and I turned on CNN that morning after she head about the first airplane on the radio, and I have no words to describe the feeling that washed over us when that second plane hit.
What we were watching was *literally* unbelievable.
Vic
There just aren’t words.
Rev
I was working in TV news and we saw it live. I literally fainted from the horror and was sent home. Days later, we learned half of the terrorists were living in South Florida, near where I lived. And the anthrax attacks at AMI (Enquirer, etc.), where my close friend worked.
May we never forget what happened that day, or what the day signifies: America coming together. God Bless!
heath
I was in college at the time. The phone rang and it woke me up. It was my roomate’s father calling. From his words, I felt like I tried to wake up again. That was the only time in my life I ever felt that. I worry what may be the next thing that tries to wake me up when I am already awake…
I certainly cannot imagine what the first responders or the search and rescuers felt. I’m sure my feeling pales in comparison.
I will NEVER forget .
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