Remembering 9/11

Personally, that day was a very scary one. I was at work when it happened and one of the guys I worked with was checking a news website when reports of the first plane hit. Soon the report came about the second plane and everyone knew it wasn’t a freak accident. At one point our office manager put her husband on speaker phone so we could hear the news report he was listening to so we could know what was going on.

I remember being panicked because I knew my Dad, Mom, and StepDad were all in the city. I knew my Dad was planning on being at or near the towers (I think he was there the day before) and it turns out my Mom was scheduled for a meeting in one of the towers on the 12th. Creepy. I didn’t know that though. So I am trying to call them frantically, wanting to know if parts of my family were trapped or dead or alive. Eventually I heard from everyone. The waiting was very very nerve-wracking though. Luckily my Mom and Dad weren’t even in the city that day. Unfortunately my StepDad was, his office is very close to the towers. So although he wasn’t injured, he was one of the people who had to walk through the noxious air and deal with the horror first hand. I can’t imagine what that must be like.

It makes me mad when politicians use a horrible event like this as an excuse to do the inexcusable. And it is even worse when they continue to peddle fear and hate to this very day. I believe that is the biggest disrespect to those who lost loved ones on that frightful day.

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September 11, 2008 · Posted in Musings  
　　　　

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2 Responses to “Remembering 9/11”

  1. charlie on September 12th, 2008

    i was in the city on 9/10/2001 to meet former co-workers for lunch – because krispy kreme donuts was making big news coming to new york i decided to get into the city early and walk up to the trade center and try these donuts – krispy kreme donuts are just another donut – i watched the planes crash into the trade center on tv and was shocked – it was a very clear day and it couldn’t have been an accident – i think we should get osama bin laden at all costs

  2. Chris on September 12th, 2008

    The worst thing about krispy kremes is that they are mostly air, so you have to eat a bunch of them to even feel like you ate something. :(

    I agree about getting bin laden, I wish we hadn’t gotten distracted by Iraq and kept the focus on bin laden and co.

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