I knew it was the anniversary of 9-11 all week, but somehow today I put it out of my mind. I do that when I don’t want to do something or remember something…kind of a defense mechanism.
The radio just broadcast a beautiful remembrance and there it was…a flash back like no other. I was working at the time and I heard someone say that two planes just crashed into the World Trade Centers. What? Extreme disbelief. We were able to get onto a news station on-line before the world bogged down the net. My company put the news on in the boardroom on the mammoth TV; I went in and found I just could stay. It really happened. It really did happen. For the next week I was glued to the radio news, weeping uncontrollably; I couldn’t bear to watch actual footage. The radio just brought it all back, and even though ten years have passed, the tears flowed like it was happening today.
To our brothers and sisters south of the 49th, know that I’m thinking of you today. I will remember the horrible acts humans impose on each other – not just 9-11 and hope that in some way, we will all learn something from it.
Remembering 9-11
September 11, 2011 by Eva Taylor
There just aren’t any words…I too cried yesterday.
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I hope we never had to relive that again, Kristy.
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It’s such an awful day, even here we lost people too 😦
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It’s effect brought the entire world together, Lorraine. It’s too bad it had to be something so tragic.
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My heartfelt prayers and thoughts are with the victims and their families during this difficult time. I can’t help but feel compelled do dedication a blog post to the American people who have shown courage, pride and dignity during the WTC memorial. This event has certainly brought communities around the world closer and to rally behind the hope for a better world.
http://chopinandmysaucepan.com/spring-2011-a-season-for-renewed-hope
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So true Chopinand, Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella said that you lost some people too that day, I know we did. Very sad indeed.
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I never really understood Pearl harbor. I mean, I knew the history but didn’t “get” the date’s impact. We should have expected it, I always thought. Then came 9-11. Well, I get it now and hope no one ever has to get it or something similar ever again.
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John, it’s a horrible display of human behavior at it’s worst. The truly sad part was that it was done in the name if ‘religion’. Unforgivable.
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Hi Eva….what a lovely, tribute for such a sad time. You are so sweet to remember. It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years.
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It’s the same month we moved into this house, Ann. We discovered we were on our international airports flightpath; it was eerily quiet for a week! The sound of the first plane was so strange – really creepy!
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Such a sad sad day… 😦
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Inconceivable, Manu.
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“Extreme disbelief”
I still find it incredible… so difficult to believe… that something so tragic and devastating in scale 😦
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Me too, Charles.
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I really like your gravatar today.
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Thanks Greg. That day just blew my mind.
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