in my mother's old photos that I have been scanning.
I believe it is from the early '80s.
I love that we have this photo.
Ten years ago, that ordinary September morning,
I put my 2 older girls on the school bus,
and put my youngest baby girl down for a morning nap,
and proceeded to take a nap myself.
I was woken up by a phone call from my husband
who was at work asking me if I was watching the news.
I turned on the TV just in time to see the 1st tower implode.
I remember feeling the blood freeze in my veins.
And then I remember crying non-stop for the next week.
I did not know anyone personally who died on that day,
but I read every article and watched the news 24/7.
One memory that will stay with me always,
is the American flags that I saw everywhere I looked
and the feeling of pride I had for my country.
We will never forget...
The number of casualties will be more than most of us can bear.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Sept. 11, 2001
What are your memories of that day?
I have detailed my memories many times on the net over the past ten years and no matter how many years pass, it still seems like yesterday. Like you, I didn't know anyone directly, but I did have online friends who lost family and friends of their own. 911 hurt all of us in so many ways. All the people who died that day were connected to us because it could have been any one of us on those planes, in that tower or at the Pentagon. 911 was about everyday normal people living their lives and they had those lives taken by mad men. RIP to all of the victims of 911, and God bless the survivors...God bless us all and keep us safe.
ReplyDeleteI blogged last night, a post that I've been wanting and needing to write for ten years now. And it still sometimes feels like yesterday. It's always a surprise to me as I teach a generation of post 9/11 children, for whom that day was not life changing or devastating, but is just someone else's history. Important to record this, as much as anything else we scrapbookers document.
ReplyDeleteI blogged about the same topic this morning. I was a terrible day. So many innocent lives lost. So much pain. :-/
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ReplyDeleteI was 7 monthes pregnant for my second child, and I was listening to the radio. It was so incredible that i needed to watch TV. I staid in front of the TV during hours and hours, crying and saying to my baby-still-not-born :"What world and what future are we making for you ?"
I'm late to this post. I remember that day crystal clear. I was getting ready for my internship at school. My husband called me in because the first tower had been hit. I was watching as the plane hit the second tower. I called my brother because he lived in Greenwich Village at the time. He was going to NYU. He wasn't in his dorm, and his room mate didn't know where he had gone. I called back about 15 minutes later and he was there. He said he had gone to the church to pray for all the people who died. He heard the planes flying in and later he saw the second tower collapse. They evacuated him, and we were unable to get ahold of him for about a day because of the phone lines. You just couldn't get through. That day has changed us all and our country and our children's future. They watched a video at school about it, and my first graders can't understand WHY someone would do that. It's amazing how innocent and fresh young minds are.
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