It’s Hard To Believe..
September 11, 2008 by BloggerNewbie
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It’s hard to believe it has been SEVEN YEARS since that fateful day on 09-11-2001. Wow. Some days it feels like yesterday, some days it feels like 20 years ago. 
And yet again, some days it feels like it never really happened at all. That kind of thing doesn’t happen to us, not the United States of America! It will forever be one of those discussions that people will ask “do you remember where you were that day?”
Kind of like the JF Kennedy discussions. I belong to our local Elks Lodge. An old – proud organization. I have been there countless times when people ask “do you remember what you were doing the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?” They don’t really wait for your answer. They go on tell you their war story. They know it by heart. I think they have told the story more than once. They tell their story in great detail. Minute by minute. I actually like to listen to them recount that day. I like history and especially old “war” stories.
Once all ten of them tell their stories and argue about the current events of that day, the weather, the detail as they remember it, they eventually do ask me for my story.
Unfortunately (for them) I have to tell them that I was pooping my pants in my crib or something of that nature. I was barely 6 months old. Some are amused at my answer; some are annoyed. I laugh. I think I’m funny!
Is it too early to tell “war” stories about 9-11? I do remember that day. It still sends cold chills from my head to my toes.
I owned my own business then. I had two employees and they were both at a continuing education program for the day. So needless to say, I was busy! I didn’t have time to chat. My mother and my brother came to “visit” as they often did at my place of business. I frequently reminded them that this was actually my job…They claimed the only time they could see me was at work because I was always there.
My brother was telling me that terrorists were attacking New York as we speak. This was very early, probably even before the second plane hit. He has lots of theories I don’t usually listen to and this wasn’t going to be any different. Especially since I didn’t have time to play with them that day!
Finally, I managed to get them out of my office. Throughout the day, plenty of people came in and recounted what they had seen on television all morning. I didn’t see any news cast because I was working and too busy to even take lunch.
Eventually, I went home. When the ladies returned from their training, they told me about what they watched on the news all day. They said they didn’t get much out of the program; everyone was too devastated to think straight. (More cold chills)
I was not prepared for what I was about to see and learn. I could not believe it. I was mesmerized in shock. I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. I had to listen to every word. I was scared. I was sick. I didn’t know what to do or say. My daughters were in their mid to late teens. Old enough to also be scared. I didn’t know how to answer their questions. We just all cried together.
That was a sad day in the history of the United States of America. It’s hard to believe..
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wow you are right about that.. sometimes it feels like yesterday and sometimes it feels like 20 years.. but WOW 7 years already! I remember exactly where i was and that it was definately a very very scary day.. that day was such a blur yet so clear.. its so weird how that can happen at such devestating times (be blurry yet so clear)
I think it was scary for everyone that day. And you were 16 or so? normal life is scary enough at that age. I am sure it will be a day no one will forget.