11 years ago yesterday, The world changed.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. Like a lot of people in my school,
we watched the second plane hit on TV. I remember a girl in my chemistry class,
I wont name names, sitting behind me just screaming. Crying. Other
students around sitting with their heads in their hands. Another person
kept saying "a missile hit it, a missile hit it". At that moment, even after
seeing a commercial airliner, filled with people like you and I,
smash into the side of this building, none of us could
rationalize it in our minds. Fire erupting from the otherside of the tower,
just kinda making you feel this strange emptiness inside.
By the time I really let it sink in that a plane had been used as a
weapon against us the first tower began to fall. All I can remember
is feeling sick to my stomach. Two sky scrapers, that before that day in time,
really meant nothing to me. But I saw it happening and it was almost
as if you could feel all of those people passing. Like when obi wan felt
Alderaan being destroyed in A New Hope, I felt the disturbance
in the force. The rest of the day was a blur. Though I do remember walking
through the mall like I usually do and almost every store was closed.
Such an erie feeling. Everything stopped that day. I remember coming home and
watching the news with my family. All of us piled on the bed, just watching.
They had a picture of the Empire State building on ABC and were talking,
rationalizing what had just happened to us.
Years pass by....
Im in the sushi bar at Harbor Docks, maybe a month out from joining the military. Its
lunch time and there a lady sitting at my bar talking to me about my life and
joining the armed forces and all that. The she asked me if I was joining because of 9/11.
I told her no, then she proceeded to tell me about what she was doing on that day.
And how she felt about it. Then she asked me what my first thought was when
all of this happened. I sat and thought about it for a second...
Then I realized it.
It was fear...
As Americans we're have the beautiful disposition to have two oceans to our east and west,
effectively "keeping out the bad guys".
That day brought out a weakness in us. And showed the world that no one is immune to attack.
Not even our great country ('MERICA!)
Anyways, to keep this from getting out of hand and turning into a giant sob story,
I realized that Id be afraid all these years.
And that ignoring something so powerful in human history kept me
from really coming to terms with it.
Now, 11 years later, I really feel like I can put it behind me.
ps, with deployment coming up soon ill have one more post. It'll be a good one. Haiiiii
I can remember it like it was yesterday. Like a lot of people in my school,
we watched the second plane hit on TV. I remember a girl in my chemistry class,
I wont name names, sitting behind me just screaming. Crying. Other
students around sitting with their heads in their hands. Another person
kept saying "a missile hit it, a missile hit it". At that moment, even after
seeing a commercial airliner, filled with people like you and I,
smash into the side of this building, none of us could
rationalize it in our minds. Fire erupting from the otherside of the tower,
just kinda making you feel this strange emptiness inside.
By the time I really let it sink in that a plane had been used as a
weapon against us the first tower began to fall. All I can remember
is feeling sick to my stomach. Two sky scrapers, that before that day in time,
really meant nothing to me. But I saw it happening and it was almost
as if you could feel all of those people passing. Like when obi wan felt
Alderaan being destroyed in A New Hope, I felt the disturbance
in the force. The rest of the day was a blur. Though I do remember walking
through the mall like I usually do and almost every store was closed.
Such an erie feeling. Everything stopped that day. I remember coming home and
watching the news with my family. All of us piled on the bed, just watching.
They had a picture of the Empire State building on ABC and were talking,
rationalizing what had just happened to us.
Years pass by....
Im in the sushi bar at Harbor Docks, maybe a month out from joining the military. Its
lunch time and there a lady sitting at my bar talking to me about my life and
joining the armed forces and all that. The she asked me if I was joining because of 9/11.
I told her no, then she proceeded to tell me about what she was doing on that day.
And how she felt about it. Then she asked me what my first thought was when
all of this happened. I sat and thought about it for a second...
Then I realized it.
It was fear...
As Americans we're have the beautiful disposition to have two oceans to our east and west,
effectively "keeping out the bad guys".
That day brought out a weakness in us. And showed the world that no one is immune to attack.
Not even our great country ('MERICA!)
Anyways, to keep this from getting out of hand and turning into a giant sob story,
I realized that Id be afraid all these years.
And that ignoring something so powerful in human history kept me
from really coming to terms with it.
Now, 11 years later, I really feel like I can put it behind me.
ps, with deployment coming up soon ill have one more post. It'll be a good one. Haiiiii
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