How September 11th affected my life
It started out like any other day, a bright, beautiful morning. I remember driving to work and noticing how beautiful the day had begun. When I walked into my office, I knew something was wrong, everyone was sitting around the television, phones went unanswered, and no one said a word. I stopped to watch the news and realized why everyone was glued to the screen, an airplane had hit one of the world trade center towers. Thoughts raced thru my head, “this must be an accident”, “was the pilot drunk”, “how many people had just lost their lives”, . . .
I kept thinking to myself, how could this happen? How could such a calm and beautiful day turn in to such a nightmare? As you may have already guessed, this horrid day was September 11, 2001. The smoke literally engulfed the entire city. We have just recently past the anniversary of 9/11. Now there were no thoughts running thru my head, only tears, grief, and the realization of the unknown. As I went to work that morning, a year after the earth-shattering event, I stopped and observed that again it was a calm, serene, and beautiful day. Huge pieces of fiery metal and debris fell from the heavens. My heart felt as if it had been tied in knots. “how could something like this happen?” As I sat there trying to register in my mind the events that had just un-folded, something in the screen caught my eye. “No, it couldn’t be!” It was, I watched in terror as a second plane hit the remaining world trade center tower. How odd that such nightmares can begin on such beautiful days. For the next half hour or so we all sat there watching the television, and the horrible scene of flames licking at the sides of the building and smoke billowing out of the towers. Then as if to throw water on a grease fire, we saw the first jumper, then there were more and more. People were jumping to their deaths! We were asking each other why? Why wouldn’t they try to survive? Then as if to answer our questions, we watched again in sheer terror as the first tower fell.
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