Everyone can also remember where they were when they heard about it...
I was getting ready for work when the news showed the first tower on fire and they weren't saying what happened with any certainty.....then I saw the second plane hit tower two. No doubt this was an outright attack on our country....
It's pretty stunning how long it takes for your brain to wrap around something as this because you want to believe something else rather than what's clear otherwise.... You know it's an attack but your brain doesn't want to believe it......you know people died instantly when it hit....you wonder how the firefighters are going to get up that high ....questions surface that you can't answer....and most of all you wonder if your loved ones or people you might know are safe even though you know they aren't there.
You notice the time and know your work day is ahead...do you go...call off...go in because that's what you do everyday?
..... Yet there's a clear and precise sense....... everything has just changed.
Most of us probably remember it like it was yesterday. I do.
Night owl that I am, I usually go to be between 5 and 6 a.m. but that morning I couldn’t go to sleep right away. I was restless and couldn’t think of any reason to be.
I finally dropped off and Hubby woke me up less than an hour later, saying something about war. The cats had been acting up when I went to bed and in my stupor I thought he was telling me there was a big brawl. I stormed out to the family room yelling and the cats were all just sitting around. That’s when Hubby told me to look at the TV and I saw the buildings encased in smoke.
We watched in horror for a little while and after the plane went down in PA, we got on the move, not knowing if more planes were out there or where they might be. He gassed up the vehicles and I went to stock up on food and other supplies.
I didn’t go to sleep until the wee hours of Thursday morning, I was so wound up. I couldn’t stop thinking about all the lives lost.
I was also furious at the scumbags who pulled off the attacks and am to this day. No forgiveness.
