It's been 7 years already, how could that be!? it feels like it just happened yesterday~
I remember getting the call from my friend "turn on your tv!!" he hung up.
I was awakened by that phone call, still sleepy eyed, I turned on the television, I saw a plane crashing into one of the twin towers, what the hell is this I thought?! I couldn't figure out if it was a bad movie, but the reporting sounded so real..I sat down on the couch watching & listening. I listened & watched for 4 days straight, I was paralyzed, I felt confined, I was petrified, I kept my young son home from school. On the 5th day I had to get to the grocery store. My son wanted to go to Taco Time for lunch...I was afraid to even drive. It was eery to not hear any planes overhead, everything was changed, everything was different, it was the first time I ever truly felt hate inside my heart.
We stepped inside the quiet resteraunt, they had tons of little American flags inside & red white n blue candles burning at the counter & every table...it really impacted me....I was speechless, the gal was trying to take my order, I couldn't speak...she was the first person I had seen in 5 days, I couldn't order, I couldn't talk, I started sobbing, she came around from behind the counter & we just hugged & cried together, we didn't know each other...my poor baby was so confused. We didn't eat their that day, I felt guilty that I was alive & so many families were hurting because of the lives that were taken away from them in those brutal senseless attacks. We just turned around & went home that day.
where were you on that day?!
I felt that way too. I cried for days, maybe longer. That night my husband and I sat out on our fron steps and looked up at the silent starlit sky. We live close to an airport and hear plans all the time but now it was silent except for my sobbing. I couldn't go out either. When I finally did, if I even looked at another person..I cried. My insides felt sick and my heart felt like it was in my stomach. I cried as I watched the events this morning. I'll never understand the mindset to do something so horrible.
Posted by: Judy K | September 11, 2008 at 04:33 PM
your one of three blogs out of ALL the blogs i read that actually posted somthing about sept. 11th ... thank you.
Posted by: sheri | September 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM