9/11 Remembered:
5 years ago today I was 9 months pregnant...just days away from giving birth to my 3rd child. I remember waking up and flipping on the TV to watch the news like I always did. I watched as AA Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the WTC. Horrified, I sat down on the floor in shock and continued to watch throughout the day. The only time I left the living room was to field phone calls from relatives. You see... My family was very concerned about my cousin who was a NYC cop. His "beat" included the WTC area.
A month later I was in New York attending a funeral. My uncle (This is the father of my cousin. Yes. He made it out of ground zero alive, but alot of his friends & fellow first responders didn't) was a member of the NYC Harbor Police for many years. Many of his colleagues had recently had funeral masses at the same church; fallen in the line of duty on September 11th. The men & women in dress uniform attending my uncles funeral were weary. Even though my uncle was a very sick man ( he died of esophageal cancer, and mets), it did not lessen the fact that another good man had died.
On my last trip to NYC, I visted ground zero where tributes still lay alongside the high chainlink fence. It made me very emotional to see that. Just as today it made me emotional to see the ticker at the bottom of the screen on CNN displaying the names of all 2,900+ people that died that day.
Every year on 9/11 I sit and think about the events of that day. I never watch the news anymore...but I did this morning. I had to.
...and I've been crying the whole bloody time!
5 years ago today I was 9 months pregnant...just days away from giving birth to my 3rd child. I remember waking up and flipping on the TV to watch the news like I always did. I watched as AA Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the WTC. Horrified, I sat down on the floor in shock and continued to watch throughout the day. The only time I left the living room was to field phone calls from relatives. You see... My family was very concerned about my cousin who was a NYC cop. His "beat" included the WTC area.
A month later I was in New York attending a funeral. My uncle (This is the father of my cousin. Yes. He made it out of ground zero alive, but alot of his friends & fellow first responders didn't) was a member of the NYC Harbor Police for many years. Many of his colleagues had recently had funeral masses at the same church; fallen in the line of duty on September 11th. The men & women in dress uniform attending my uncles funeral were weary. Even though my uncle was a very sick man ( he died of esophageal cancer, and mets), it did not lessen the fact that another good man had died.
On my last trip to NYC, I visted ground zero where tributes still lay alongside the high chainlink fence. It made me very emotional to see that. Just as today it made me emotional to see the ticker at the bottom of the screen on CNN displaying the names of all 2,900+ people that died that day.
Every year on 9/11 I sit and think about the events of that day. I never watch the news anymore...but I did this morning. I had to.
...and I've been crying the whole bloody time!
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It is important that we remember those who were murdered, those that made the ultimate sacrifice helping and those that came to the rescue.
This is a great country of choice, popular law and freedom. Despite what some try to taint our military might no other country is more a superpower of humanity.
*gets of soap box*
Hope you have a great rest of your week.
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