In Memory of 9/11
Many would rather forgot this day,but I choose to remember. I was living in New York City on this horrific day. I was asleep with my two children when my husband called and told me to turn on the tv. I remember thinking that it must have been an accident. A plane accidentally crashed into the World Trade Center. But when I saw another plane hit the other tower I thought I was watching a movie. It was so hard to believe or to comprehend. I started sobbing. I never hugged my children so tight as I did at that moment. My dh was on his way to work. He saw the smoke coming out of the first tower from the 59th Street Bridge. No one knew what lay ahead. How this day changed our lives forever. I still cry when I remember. It hurts to know that so many innocent people had to die. I grew up in New York City and to me this is the most wonderful city in the world. I am proud of my fellow New Yorkers and stand by them. And even though many would rather forget. I refuse to forget. I want everyone to remember what those heartless people did to us and stand by our troops. Most of all...to love one another wether you are a democrat,republican,asian,african american or spanish. Just as we united when this all happened...we should unite and stand as one.
I also want to stop and remember the families of the victims of Flight 93 and the victims of the Pentagon. Let us not forget.....
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GOD BLESS THE USA
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9 comments:
Oh, I so agree with you. I was born and raised in New York, and I lived in New York City and worked downtown for ten years. Many of the accounts I visited were in the World Trade Center. I was living in Toronto on 9/11, and I just wanted to go home. My husband and I wept for our friends and family and we just wanted to go home. so, we did, and now we are back in the best country in the world. I am so proud to be a New Yorker and the way everyone rallied around to help still touches my heart. The loss of 9/11 still makes me cry today. Blessings, Karen
Janet, I too have memories of that day. My husband was in Manhatten very late, the evening before. I was horrified when I did not hear from him. When the planes hit he was in an office building across the river and saw it all happening. It took him hours to get through on the telephone and even longer to drive home. Many of his business associates where stuck in New Jersey and could not fly home because the airlines were closed.
Many of them rented cars to drive to return to their families all over the United States. What a horrific time for all. And you are so right, we MUST support our troops fighting this war on terrorism. Whether we believe we should be there or not, we ARE there and it is our duty to support those that are fighting for our freedom. Thank you for your tribute.
xoxo
Trisha Evans
my2roses
Amen! Thank you, Janet, for putting into words what I have been feeling all morning. My husband is a pilot with AA... Our lives have been changed forever by the events of this day. It hurts to see our country so divided and to seemingly have forgotten why we are at war. Never forget...Support our troops.
....Amen.
What a beautiful picture of the President and First Lady with the wreath.
Janet, Thank you, again.
My heart was so heavy with those memories yesterday. I just couldn't post about tea.
I am not from New York, but still love the city and what it stands for. I have only been there twice--both times pre-2001. I watched the events in horror and cried for days.
My DH was home that day, but volunteered to ferry planes around the country on the following Thurs. (9/13) to get the flights back up. I was so frightened that day, that there would be more hi-jackings and terrorism.
I'll never forget.
While I never lived in NY, I did love NY and did get to visit before the towers fell. My uncle got out of the second tower as it was collapsing. I call him and my aunt every Sept 11 to let them know ... I still remember.
Janet, thank you for the beautiful tribute. As always your words touched my heart deeply. You have a beautiful, open and honest way of expressing your feelings that I love about you.
I think we all rememeber where we were and what we were doing on 9/11. I was shopping that morning and I had Steve's cell phone that day. His mother called thinking she was calling him, and told me about the first airplane crashing into the World Trade Center. I really thought she must have misunderstood the news reports! I called Steve at work to get him to check on CNN and see what was going on. Amazingly it had just happened and he was able to get through online. He told me it was true and I just couldn't comprehend it. I rushed home and saw the live coverage when the second one hit. I get terrible chills remembering it. So surreal and haunting. I wanted to go and get my children from school and just hug them and keep them in my arms forever.
I had been running my single parents website for only four months when the terrorists attacked. My mind kept going to all the children who lost a parent that day, of all those who instantly became single parents. My heart was crushed for them, and it still is.
Later when Lisa Beamer wrote "Let's Roll" about her husband Todd Beamer, from Flight 93, I interviewed their best friend, Doug MacMillan, who helped Lisa create the Todd Beamer Foundation, which is now called Heroic Choices. I did a feature on what their efforts were doing for the children of 9/11, and a follow up every year. It was hard to write about it, but important, and it felt strange not to be writing anywhere about it this year. I am so glad you wrote this memorial Janet. I never want to forget the myriad lessons our nation learned that day. Thank you.
Dianne
Janet,
Thank you for this post. I chose to remember too. I watched it all day long and my eyes were just puffy and burning all day from tears welling up frequently. It still hurts to think about it. Even so, I don't ever want to forget how it made me feel. I love our country fiercely.
Peggy
A moving post and tribute..amen...
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