[Error: unknown template qotd]This is painful to write, not only because so many people lost their lives on that day, not because someone thaught that they were bigger and better than us and not because someone decided that it would be fun to play God and bring down the twin towers, but because I lost one of my best friends. I lost my husband on 9/11 of 2004 as well. So when you want to know where I was on 9/11 2001, the reason it is so painful is because I was at my husband's parents house. At the time he was my fiancee but same person. So when I think about this date, I think of all who were lost in 2001 and I think of Jim who was lost on 2004. There will be an entry for this later however.
The day the towers fell, I was at Jims' parents house. I was just waking up and I was listening to the radio. I can never sleep unless i have the radio or tv in the background. As I was waking up, I heard the DJ who was on at the time talking about the first tower being hit by a plane. At first, I didn't really think anything of it, I thaught maybe it was an accident. I didn't think much of it because plane crashes happen sometimes. I was sad to think of the people on the plane and in the tower where the plane hit but I never in a million years thaught it to be bigger than just a simple plane crash. I don't say simple as in, no big deal either just so you know. As the DJ kept talking, I started to get a really bad feeling in my stomach, not that i wasn't already feeling extremely sick and feeling like something was wrong. I had been feeling it ever since before that Tuesday. I'll explain that in a bit though. I got out of bed and ran to the TV, grabbed the remote and turned it on. I immediately saw the second plane hit the second tower. I realized then that this was no accident, I knew that we were under attack. I didn't know who was behind it, I just knew we were in trouble. All of that day, I was pretty much glued to the TV waiting for news of what was going on. When I heard who was behind the attacks, I was stunned. To me, terrorists were just something I read about in books and watched in movies. I mean, I can remember watching Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard and laughing at him. I know that terrorists do exist, I'm not that naive but to have something like this hit in the US was pretty surprising to me, I sat and was trying to figure out who we had angered. I'm sorry, this is no laughing matter but when something gets way too serious I always try and think of a way to lighten the mood. It's how I deal with things sometimes. My apologies to those I may have offended, that was not my intent. But I digress, back to the topic at hand. I then heard about the plane that hit the Pentagon and the one that crashed in the field in Pennsylvania. My fears were confirmed.
The Friday before 9/11 2001, so it would have been 9/7 2001, I felt like something was going to happen and it was going to be bad. I told Jim that i felt as if something was horribly wrong and he asked me what I thaught it was. I told him I didn't know, i can never tell what's going to happen, i can just feel it when something is going to happen. Every day after that the feeling kept getting worse. By Monday Sept 10, it was so bad I was feeling physically sick and told Jim as much. I had no idea it was going to be that huge.
So, when you ask where I was on September 11 2001? In the long way of giving you my answer, I was at jim's parents house.
I would just like to take this time to say, to the passengers and crew of Flight 93, may your memory live on. You were brave till the end and stopped another target from getting hit. You all faught and paid the ultimate price for doing so. Thank you to you all, you will never be forgotten. May you all rest in peace.
To all the others who died on this day back in 2001, you too will not be forgotten. Lots of innocent lives were lost and for what? Because someone decided that they needed to play God with your lives. To you, rest in peace as well. Your memory lives on as well.
To the Fire fighters, policemen and women who responded and lost your lives, may you all find peace in the afterlife as well. You too are not forgotten.
And finally, and hopefully I'm not forgetting anyone, thank you to the military for all of your hard work. Thank you for protecting this country and fighting for our freedoms as little as they are becoming these days. To those in the military who have lost their lives fighting for this country, may you all rest in peace, you are not forgotten.
To those i may have forgotten to mention, know that you are certainly not any less important than those of 9/11 2001. The FBI, the CIA and all who work to stop attacks from happening and who keep our countries secrets, thank you to you too.
To the TSA? lighten up! we don't appreciate having our bodies scanned for the world to see. But I must say, thank you for your thorough cecurity checks at the airports to try and prevent another tragedy like the one in 2001 from happening. I may not approve of what you guys do totally but you do protect us the best you can.
Now having said all of that, for everyone else's sanity, I will end this entry. I'll be back later with another entry for my readers.
<3hugs to all<3
Take care of each other and don't miss an opportunity to tell your family and loved ones that you love them, you just never know. Life's too short not to.
Lily
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