Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Posted by chrystibella on September 11, 2008

It’s hard to believe it’s been 7 years since 9/11 happened.

That morning I was woken up by my alarm clock with the radio. The first plane had just crashed and the shock was in the voices of the brodcasters. I ran into the living room and turned on the television just in time to watch “live” the second plane crash into the building. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Not in our country! Not in the USA! NO!!!!!!!

I called my mom and woke her up. She turned on her TV and we sat there watching, listening, crying. I remember when the buildings began to collapse and people started running and the cameraman who had been filming left his camera on the ground and ran.

It was a day when our nation came together, united as we had not been in many ages.

I went to work, in shock. I think we were all in shock for a long time. I still find it very difficult to see photos from that day. I can’t even imagine what it was like for the people at the WTC who lost their lives. What should have been a typical day at the office became a living nightmare in a split second.

I think many of us felt a sense of guilt for feeling the loss when we had not really been affected the way those in NYC were but it was really something that had an effect on the nation as a whole. It has been a huge burden on our hearts and the fallout for the families who lost loved ones was so very painful.

7 years….. it seems like it was last year, not 7 years ago.