story4151.xml
Title
story4151.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
On September 11,2001 I was working and was headed to our usual place, a local grocery store for our 9:00 break. We usually grabbed a little something to eat and would take a 15 min break!
Well after making my food selection i reached the cashier to check out. She had told one of my co-workers that they had just heard about an airplane hitting one of the twin towers in NY!
Being a college student and just taking a current events class a couple of quarters before had only remembered a few things about those towers. They were one of the highest or tallest buildings in the US and that back around 1996 they had been bombed! That was all that i could remember about them.
I also figured oh probably a tired pilot or something had probably caused this and was an accident.
We were then in touch with our supervisor who instructed us to come back to the main building.This was mainly for security reasons. I never had been that close to excitement involving the world and being a government work place everything had to be carefully considered! No packages to be accepted or shipped out was the main one and the local police dept was guarding all city government buildings!
Then we watched the repeat of the 1st tower being hit and then out of nowhere the 2nd tower was struck.
Up until this day i was never so on alert and have never watched a huge historic event unravel as I was watching.
My mom had always told me where she was when President Kennedy had been shot and every time I rolled my eyes and listenend to how much of a gentleman he was ,now i could relate to her reciting this historic event over and over, i too would be doing this with that day's events!
I will now pass on to my children and grandchildren the September 11, 2001 story of how these terrorists had taken on our country, and how we all would pull together in a million different ways to get through this time and be stronger people!
As the days and months rolled by and thousands of stories rolled in our personal lives and thru television and radio, we all stood strong and began to fight and undergo this transformation!
To all the wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandchildren, grandparents, co-workers, friends, loved ones, my heart goes out to you on this day of rememberance!
As I blare one of the great songs "God Bless the USA" on my car stereo,as I return to my job after witnessing a small hometown rememberance program in the center of our town. I think of all of you and pause for a moment as the chorus is being played, and i think of how I can remember you and your families.
I feel selfish on how I can go home tonite and hold the ones I love and I can talk on the phone,right now if i wanted to to them. Then i think of all of you who have lost someone in these events and are trying to remember all of the good times and the last goodbyes you said before this all happened!
I want to wish you all happiness and love as you pull stronger and get through this time in your lives and may the spirit of your loved ones that were taken from you help you hold your head up high and smile!
May these events help us all realize to show love and compassion to everyone in the world! Let's not take one single moment of time for granted...Let's help each other out! Sometimes the simplest things can say ALOT!
We are sometimes in such a hurry that we don't let that person at the 4 way stop go thru the intersection 1st we feel that they will get ahead of us, or the person crossing the street we don't help cross. Let's all be thankful of what we have , who we are, and be thankful of what we can do and SMILE--ITS VERY CONTAGIOUS!!
Well after making my food selection i reached the cashier to check out. She had told one of my co-workers that they had just heard about an airplane hitting one of the twin towers in NY!
Being a college student and just taking a current events class a couple of quarters before had only remembered a few things about those towers. They were one of the highest or tallest buildings in the US and that back around 1996 they had been bombed! That was all that i could remember about them.
I also figured oh probably a tired pilot or something had probably caused this and was an accident.
We were then in touch with our supervisor who instructed us to come back to the main building.This was mainly for security reasons. I never had been that close to excitement involving the world and being a government work place everything had to be carefully considered! No packages to be accepted or shipped out was the main one and the local police dept was guarding all city government buildings!
Then we watched the repeat of the 1st tower being hit and then out of nowhere the 2nd tower was struck.
Up until this day i was never so on alert and have never watched a huge historic event unravel as I was watching.
My mom had always told me where she was when President Kennedy had been shot and every time I rolled my eyes and listenend to how much of a gentleman he was ,now i could relate to her reciting this historic event over and over, i too would be doing this with that day's events!
I will now pass on to my children and grandchildren the September 11, 2001 story of how these terrorists had taken on our country, and how we all would pull together in a million different ways to get through this time and be stronger people!
As the days and months rolled by and thousands of stories rolled in our personal lives and thru television and radio, we all stood strong and began to fight and undergo this transformation!
To all the wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandchildren, grandparents, co-workers, friends, loved ones, my heart goes out to you on this day of rememberance!
As I blare one of the great songs "God Bless the USA" on my car stereo,as I return to my job after witnessing a small hometown rememberance program in the center of our town. I think of all of you and pause for a moment as the chorus is being played, and i think of how I can remember you and your families.
I feel selfish on how I can go home tonite and hold the ones I love and I can talk on the phone,right now if i wanted to to them. Then i think of all of you who have lost someone in these events and are trying to remember all of the good times and the last goodbyes you said before this all happened!
I want to wish you all happiness and love as you pull stronger and get through this time in your lives and may the spirit of your loved ones that were taken from you help you hold your head up high and smile!
May these events help us all realize to show love and compassion to everyone in the world! Let's not take one single moment of time for granted...Let's help each other out! Sometimes the simplest things can say ALOT!
We are sometimes in such a hurry that we don't let that person at the 4 way stop go thru the intersection 1st we feel that they will get ahead of us, or the person crossing the street we don't help cross. Let's all be thankful of what we have , who we are, and be thankful of what we can do and SMILE--ITS VERY CONTAGIOUS!!
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