9/11 remembered

NoVADad99
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 01:42:37 +0000

15 years already. Yet the memory of that day still is as fresh as that day. I can never forget it. I grew up in NYC have friends who were at the area around WTC, family in the city, and my fraternity big brother was supposed to have been on UA93 that day, but decided at the last minute not to go on his trip. I was working in the Pentagon and had a TV that showed me what was happening in NYC from the first inkling of something being amiss. Needless to say it was complete chaos for the next few hours. Yet I was lucky to have made it home a little after 10 am to watch it on the news with my wife and kids. She was at first hysterical not knowing my status after the first report of the attack on the Pentagon. Cell phones were useless, so I just decided to drive home while standing in the Pentagon parking lot.

I avoidedg going to Ground Zero for years and only two years ago I decided to visit the 9/11 museum. I was very surprised at the emotions that overcame me when I went down there and saw all the pictures of the victims. All those tears came flowing out and I couldn’t stop it. Thinking about it now, I still cry about all those lives that were forever changed that day.