9/11 remembered

raclut
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:26:52 +0000

Hard to believe it was long ago. I am about 6 miles from DC. I can’t forget that day. In our office we have pantries for coffee and soda for all employees. There is also a screen broadcasting all the latest news. I remember coworkers standing in the pantry and the crowd getting larger in the room as we all stared at the tv screen as the first plane hit the WTC. We were dismissed from work later that morning and the roads were jammed. I drove to my dd’s kindergarten class to pick her up. What was a 10 minute commute took an hour. Everything including the malls were closing in the area. One of our coworkers went to the WTC for a meeting that day. His son was in my kids kindergarten class. The community tried our best to help that mother and child who were in total shock. We were shocked and speechless and when there was an attack at the Pentagon it really hit close to home since so many government employees lived in the surrounding area. I worked as a contractor at one of the buildings that had a piece of the remaining structure in the main lobby as we entered the building. It was a daily reminder of what had happened. That haunting feeling never goes away. It is something you can’t forget.