Amen. I agree wholeheartedly.
I refused an offer with The New York Merchantile Exchange because of the commute. This was in either 1990 or 1991. I know, 10 years before 9-11 and could have move on. Still, one never knows.
I consider myself very lucky and thank God every day. But those innocent lives must never be forgotten. My nephews, who used to work in Manhattan, witnessed the whole thing/carnage that day. He didn't get home until past midnight.
I could see the smoke (and when I say this I'm starting to cry again) from where I live now. To this day when I see firefighters, I start to cry. Can't help it.
Sorry.
Don't be. I couldn't cry for months afterward. I was simply much too angry for tears.
We were living in SoCal when my mother in law called.It was just before six in the morning, She told my wife that a plane made a sharp turn over the Brooklyn bridge in front of her building. My wife thought that she had lost her mind. She kept yelling "turn on the TV!" We did and saw WTC1 was already hit. at first we thought it was an accident, but then the second plane arrive, and turned sharply into Tower 2. we heard the noise of it over the phone. none of us will ever forget it or who did it!
About a year after 9-11 in New Orleans, I was riding an elevator with an elderly gentleman who was wearing a really nice NYFD cap. He happened to be looking at me just as I was looking at his cap. I'm thinking he may have lost someone on 9-11 and someone in the NYFD had given him the cap. His eyes started filling with tears. That's all it took for me to start crying too. When the elevator reached my floor, we embraced and I got off. I can't describe the emotions the were exchanged in those few, silent moments.
No need to be sorry. We can mourn our dead but we all must go on until the enemy is defeated.
To this day I cry whenever I hear the verse of "America, The Beautiful" that goes "O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self the country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! "
It always makes me think of the firefighters and the people on flight 93 who fought the terrorists and died keeping those monsters from killing even more Americans.
I'm crying again even now.