9-11
Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 9:37 amI had a blog back in 2001. It was mostly rants about my breakup with my college boyfriend and all the nutso emotional stuff that goes along with something like that. So, when the hosting service went out of business sometime ago, I wasn’t at all sad to see it go. But yesterday I remembered it had my Sept 11th post. Not that I wrote anything meaningful or powerful, I just recorded my day, as it really happened. Today I visited the wayback machine and of a handful of posts it managed to capture from that site, my Sept. 11th post was saved. So .. here it is.
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9-11-2001 - unbelievable
I cant believe this. I woke up this morning to my voice mail ring. Mom left me a message. “hi hon, just calling to see what they are doing up there .. horrible horrible situation.” I didnt know what to think. I called my mom and I turned the tv on to see one of the world trade towers collapse. So then my day of hanging on every word the news could tell me started. I just watched and listened as the details of the planes crashes and the buildings collapsing unfolded. I picked mike up at school and went with him to Oggy’s house. We watched .. and talked about what could be next. Still not letting it sink in. We went to pick up our football tickets and we learned that classes had been cancelled for the day. Then I went back with mike to his house and watched some more. No new information.. just the same chaos. I stared at the tv while the cnn guys repeated the the same news over and over again. And then I started to cry. I dont think it was for the massive amount of human life that was ended today. But for fear, of what might happen next. The stress of the day, and the thoughts running through my head started to make me sick, and I couldnt stop crying, silently. Then the news announced blood will be needed, and they said from any location in the United States. So I grabbed my stuff and drove straight to citivan. When I got there the line was pretty long. 10 min after I got there the line had doubled. There were people passing out pizza, cookies and juice. They passed out numbers, I was 285. One guy behind me remarked that this was like standing in line at the deli at publix. Now serving 237. Three local radio stations were there helping spread the word. I stood in the line, through rain. After 2.5 hours I finally got inside. The lines outside were still huge. And then I heard the wait would be another 2-4 hours. I had to go home. I couldnt stand anymore .. I was exhausted. So I talked to a nurse and got the numbers so I could come back later. Then I went home. And again .. I flipped through tv news stations. Learning more and not being any more comforted. I took a shower and talked to mike. Called drew to check on adam, who is okay. And then it started to sink in again. And the crying started again. It comes and goes. Now I think its because we are at war. And then, I feel hopeless. I know our country will come together. I’m worried about how many more lives will be lost, and how it will affect my family, and friends. I made an appointment to donate blood tomorrow morning, 7am. I know I’ll get up for that. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep tonight. I’ll be thinking about all the people in NY and praying for them, in my own way. God, help us all.
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I made my first trip to NYC in 2005, and visited Ground Zero.
Here’s the iron cross:
Flowers
Ground Zero
On this day: Memes, Breakin' the Law
Very cool!
I can’t believe it’s been 7 years! What a horrible day that was for so many people. September 11th is my anniversary. That day I was home with Brody (who was 3 weeks old) glued to the T.V. I woke up that morning thinking that day Rob and I were taking our new baby boy out to dinner with us for our 2nd wedding anniversary. I remember that I thought about how lucky I was to have such a great life, and then I watched the horrible tragedy on T.V. Two weeks later, Rob was laid off, and we were in a brand new house with a new baby. I can’t say we weren’t stressed but…we kept talking about how fortunate we were compared to all the people who lost loved ones that day.
I hope we all remember that day and how blessed we all are to have the lives we have
Thanks Erica for reminding us!
Kathy
[Sep 11, 2008 at 1:09 pm]