How do you remember?
8:45 AA flight 11 crashes in to WTC North Tower (tower 1) with 92 people on board.9:03 UA flight 175 crashes into WTC South Tower (tower 2) with 65 people on board.
9:31 President Bush speaks from Florida.
9:40 American flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon with 64 people on board.
9:50 Tower two collapses.
10:00 UA flight 93 fight back and goes down in a field 80 miles SE of Pittsburgh with 45 people on board.
10:29 Tower one collapses.
5:20 A third WTC (building number 11 if I remember correctly) building collapses.
Do you remember what you were doing at these times five years ago? I do. How often to you think of it? Do you think of it daily, weekly, monthly, just every once in a while or just once a year? I think of it a lot and at odd times, when the clock reads 9:11, when I'm watching TV and a pre 9/11 show has the New York skyline or if a see a plane that seems oddly low. I had just ordered glasses a few days before and they were late because of 9/11. I couldn't put those glasses on without thinking of that day. I was oddly sad when they broke.
It was a very big thing to do five years ago but now if you see a fireman, Policeman or other rescue worker do you still thank them for what they do? They would still risk their life to save yours.
Four years ago I had my first baby with me on the first anniversary. Isabella was very fussy that morning, but I will never forget how she got very quiet when the news station we were watching had a moment of silence at 8:45. Coincidence? Most likely, but it still made me cry.
That evening we went to a church in Mason that had one flag stuck in the ground for every life lost a year ago. We have pictures of her laying on a blanket, feet in the air just looking at all the flags around her with a field of flags behind her.
I hope everyone will take a few moments today to remember in their own way.
Never forget.
posted by Cathy @ 2:34 PM
4 Comments:
I only have actual pictures of it. If you want one I'll give it to you.
I'll never forget watching it on tv in the kitchen of EyeWorld; the company went bankrupt the next day and everyone lost their jobs and I had to tell them...kind of a shitty week!
I had gotten home from work and just gotten to sleep when dad woke me up and told me about it. I thought he was joking, because I couldn't imagine anything like this happening.
I sat up all morning watching the news with dad.
Flight UA 93 shot down by U.S. military, and if any one forgets about the terror of that day, it's just a matter of time before we get a reminder from our resident terrorist. Our country welcomes them with open arms, ah the land of the free. I am truly sorry for those families who lost loved ones, and also for the ones who needlessly died that day. I will also hate to see any more senseless deaths in the future, because our country wants to be politically correct. The U.S.A. has not won a war since we nuked JAPAN!!!!.
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