Remember Today 9/11 -- we will NEVER forget

I know that today is a day that many remember...
Where were you?
What were you doing?

As for my story...
I was in college.
Woke up.
Got ready...
and was headed to school.
My cell phone rang.
It was my dad, asking if I had seen the news...
No, what is going on?

I never, ever in a million years expected to hear what was about to come out of his mouth.
Do WHAT?
WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK?!
I was in shock.

I went to class...
Hysterical, as was everyone else.

One of my classmates had a pilot for a dad and she had no clue where he was.
We sat there.
We prayed.
We did not have much to say...
I mean, what do you say?


Our teacher got word that they were shutting our school down.
We were in what was considered part of the financial district...
We could "possibly be a target"

We left.
I went home...
Turned on the news.
Friends came over.
We sat.
We watched.
We waited.
We prayed.

Finally, I had to get out...
We went to CVS for me to get a newspaper...
I knew something had to have been printed already.

All of a sudden, we saw it...
A twenty something year old guy...
RUNNING DOWN THE ROAD.
(A main road in our area I may add)
Waving a HUGE AMERICAN FLAG.
I cried.
We cried...

and that is the moment it really hit.
EVERY SINGLE one of us...
We were changed.
Some became more patriotic.
Some became closer to their family.
Some became more depressed.
Some became more isolated..

We changed.
America changed.

And we must NEVER FORGET.

Never


Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM

    This is so well written. It includes all that people felt then and feel now.

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  2. Shooting Stars MagSeptember 11, 2010 at 7:18 PM

    wonderful post. I love that the guy ran down the raod with the flag. powerful. My post is up now, down a post or so...but I recommend it b/c it deals with a specific person who lost a husband and their story.

    -Lauren

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  3. BethSeptember 11, 2010 at 9:07 PM

    well written...although I was in college too at the time...it was in the midwest, but a year later I moved to Washington DC and it was a totally different experience!

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  4. Colette SSeptember 11, 2010 at 9:08 PM

    Beautiful post darling. And yes indeed even people who weren't Americans changed, felt the shock. I was living in another country then. We all stopped in shocked and cried and prayed. It was a terrible day.

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  5. LydSeptember 11, 2010 at 10:23 PM

    It's funny but amazing how our flag means so much to us :)

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  6. TammySeptember 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM

    What a tough day for all of us and we will never ever forget that day...

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  7. HBSeptember 12, 2010 at 7:41 AM

    I was at school (Perimeter College) and they made us all go home and same thing, I went over to Fritz's apartment (it's when we all lived at Post Canyon by Digger's) and we watched the news all day.

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  8. HilSeptember 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM

    I was with you Noey. I remember talking to you ono the phone at my house and it took me almost 1 1/2 hours to get there. It was nice to be in the company of you and Alicia. It was nice we had each other to lean on...I remember I was wearing my Vancouver shirt and kept saying I'm moving to Canada...we were blessed we had each other.

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