Remembering September Eleventh 2001
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I did not write the following passage, but I couldn’t have said it better myself….. September 11th in one way or another changed all of our lives, it brought all of us together and reminded all of us just how vulnerable we are. September 11th will always be remembered as a tragedy, a day that altered the course of our nation forever. We should also remember it as a day when our nation came together and said in one voice we stand united with the workers of the World Trade Center, workers in the Pentagon and the families of Flight 93 victims. We should remember the candlelighting’s that took place in cities across the country, the American flags that decorated trees and houses across the nation in numbers never yet seen. We should remember the heroes that ran toward the danger, willing to trade their lives to help another, we remember the members of law enforcement and fire departments across the country who drove to New York and said today our baseball rivalries and our political affiliations don’t matter, we are one. We should remember on that day that America stood with one voice, no matter the age, no matter the skin color, no matter the gender that we stood shoulder to shoulder as one and said we will never forget.
I will never forget that day. I was just 10 days over my 31st birthday and I was working in the communications field at the time in a fiber optic network operations facility. We always had a television turned on to the CNN news channel so I remember seeing the footage of the first plane crash into one of the towers when everyone was trying to figure out what the hell happened. I remember thinking some stupid ass pilot had really screwed up and wasn’t watching where he was going….. hey it could happen right. I thought ok maybe it’s not such a big deal really…. it was just an accident…. but then the news camera’s focused onto the other plane and then it showed the plane was heading for the other tower…… and I remember as soon as I saw the other plane about to hit the tower I knew immediately it had to be a terrorist attack and I remember feeling my heart sink in my chest when I realized all of the people that were in that plane were about to die…. and then the second crash happened and the towers blew up in flames…… people jumped from the towers because the heat was so intense and then the towers crashed down. 2,792 or more people were killed that day.
Today my heart goes out to all of the families who lost a loved one on that tragic day. God bless America. God bless the world. We need all the blessings we can get.
