I was just reflecting back to September 11th 2001, wondering about all those folks that lost people dear to them. Remebering for myself the utter most disbelief at what i was seeing 3 miles down the road. I remember getting stuck at times square as the subway system shut down.I remember the day and the day after at the hush that came over the city. I remember the smell that burnt acrid stench that filled the air. The sight of the armed guard down in the village and the volunteers marching quietly down to the site, with shovels in their hands. I remember the throngs of people quietly walking, the silence was deafening. Seeing all the missing posters taped on bus stops looking at the happy faces that are no more. As i sit here and muse at man's inhumanity to man i wonder about all the people that lost their lives i wonder what there last moments must have been like and i wonder how the people left behind are doing on this 2nd anniversary......... My thoughts and prayers are with them.
2nd Anniversary
by chachasmum 7 Replies latest jw friends
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eisenstein
Well it's not exactly the second anniversary yet, but around this time of year I do start to get nostalgic in a sad way of that horrible day. They have changed the flight patterns of certain air traffic going into La Guardia here in New York and the planes fly right over the North of Manhattan, and so I can hear the planes going over head and I see them a lot when I am going to and from the subway or out shopping and I can't help but think of that day.
I actually was awaken from sleep by a phone call from Chachasmum (I was working second shift at the time) and was told to turn on the TV to find both of the Twin Towers burning. I was in total shock. My first simple thought was "how are they going to get up there to fix the tops of the buildings". My sister actually saw the buildings burning downtown from the building we work in. She was working first shift that day. She was actually able to catch one of the last subway trains coming from downtown. She made it to my door just as the first tower came down. She has a serious heart and lung condition, so I know she wouldn't have been able to take the smoke when the towers came down. I don't know what I would have done if I would have been down there that day, I had nightmares as it was just seeing it on TV. I actually had worked for over a year in World Trade Center #7 which later burned down that evening.
You're right the silence was deafening here in the city, people seemed to be walking around the next few days in a daze. I didn't lose anyone I know personally so I feel very fortunate. But I consider each and every person who died in that horrible ordeal including DC and Pennsylvania to be martyrs and they will be on my mind forever and I hope they are in a safe place away from the wickedness they endured.
I know you, Chachasmum, had to be right in the midst of all the chaos due to your work so I know it affected you more than me, like I said I don't know what I would have done if I would have been in the midst of all the chaos.
It was around September of last year that we found this website. So it has a twofold meaning for me. A good one for finding Freeminds and a sad one for losing so many people on September 11.
Eisenstein
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chachasmum
eisenstein
It's amost the anniversary around 4 weeks away. And we found this website around the spring of that year. It was after the dateline program on the jw pedophiles. I think we found it via silent lambs. My dosen't time march on quickly. Yeah your sister was even closer 6 blocks away.It all seems like yesterday........
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chachasmum
And so it came today the 2nd anniversary. The day started out like the day two years ago. A bright blue sky. What a sad sad day for a great many people. Have we learnt anything from all of this. Will we ever have to experience something of this magnitude again. I hope not but for all those that lost people their lives are changed forever. I just feel very sad and see the utter futility in so much destruction. We should never forget what happened two years ago today. I wonder with the passage of time whether all of this will fade into just another ceremony.
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Brummie
Chachasmum, nice but sad post, also its your 1st anniversary of posting here so happy anniversary
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chachasmum
Thanks Brummie
You know i had not even noticed the date of my posting. What a sad sad day though.
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outnfree
((((((chachasmum))))))
It's still so sad, isn't it? I was going through my own personal hell when the towers came down. My husband was having a heart catheterization at the same time as the planes were hitting the towers. The news on TV and the news at the hospital just kept getting worse. The Pentagon was also hit. My husband needed bypass surgery. The plane went down in Pennsylvania. The ambulance was transferring him to a better cardiac care facility. The doors were locked and hospital guards were searching bags (and I'm in Michigan!!!). Not 3, not 4, but 5 of his arteries were blocked! The hospital was a National Trauma Center. Translation: No "elective" surgeries until the need for beds and blood from airlifted NYC casualties was determined. As the horrible images flitted across the TV screens, a private film was rolling in my head of what a life without B would be like. My poor children, perhaps fatherless at an even younger age than I had been... Two more days of stress and horror as the death toll mounted and it became apparent that most of those who survived were in one piece and those who had not did not need the reserved blood and beds... Five hours of open heart surgery and waiting, waiting... My poor husband spending the night with a tube down his throat and me calling ICU wanting to know if it was out yet because that would mean he was stabilized. Finally removed the next morning. I came out of that week with my family intact. But I grieved for the daughter of a local family and for a kid I knew from high school who both died at the World Trade Center.
Today I went to an International Peace Pole Dedication at my college. We remembered the dead with the wish (in multiple languages) that Peace Prevail Upon the Earth. Someone quoted Ghandi (I think it was) who said [paraphrasing] that peace was a much more active pursuit than violence. Violence decided upon is quickly over and done, but peace, when chosen, must be decided upon again and again in the course of each day. (Okay --- really paraphrasing *lol*).
outnfree
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chachasmum
(((((((Hi outnfree)))))))
This is eisenstein, i am posting under chachasmum's name for the sake of time, (we share the same computer). I can empathize with you a little my sister had her catherization when she was seventeen, but found to be inoperable except for a combined heart and lung transplant. But I can't imagine what you must have been going through with all of that going on at the same time it must have been so traumatic.
That quote from Ghandi sounds very interesting, I truly believe that too, it takes greater energy to create peace than war, but it is a more positive energy.
I hope your husband is doing better and the surgery went well.
eisenstein and chachasmum
