I remember this day, 10 years ago, as if it were yesterday. I was working in Massachusettes when I watched on television at work after the first plane had hit. I thought was a horrible accident until, as I watched, another plane did the same thing, crashing into the side of the N.Y. Towers. I remember my thoughts were confused just at that very moment, wondering what was going on. I didn't think of "terrorist attack", I didn't think of any kind of an attack. That was too far fetched to even have such thoughts of happening in this country and then the TV reports, sounding as confused as I was, begin to speak of an attack on this country and that these two hits had to have been planned out. And then, another one in Penn. and then the Pentagon. I knew then, we all knew, exactly what was happening.It was unbelievable to even think of! Thoughts were race from this just can't be true to "oh my God!" And then the pictures on television proved it. It was happening. It was real and we were all in this together, connected as one.
I watched it all day long at work and I I listened to people at work share their own feelings. When I left work, all I wanted to do was be with family. I hug and be hugged. I drove to my sisters and when she opened the door, all I could do was say that I needed a hug. She had been watching it also, like everyone else in the world.
I can remember hearing back then that our country will never be as it use to be. The freedoms that existed in our country, that we all just took for granted as that is all we ever had known. But, those changes have occured and continue to do so and we all feel the effects of those changes all the time.
Ten years have gone by, and thats hard to believe in itself. The wars on terror continue on, and continue to erupt all the time. Seems now, since 9/11/01, that is the way of the world now, sadly, but surely this is now a way of life for us all. Vigilance.
