9/11 Thoughts

[lesliepear]

The day is beautiful - no clouds in the sky - just like 9/11/01.

Up early for a blood test. Came back from the test and stopped for a Starbucks Pumpkin Latte (ah fall!). Drove past the local courthouse where I was safe from the days events in NYC (I worked across from the Trade Center).

Home now. The family is sleeping (even Alan, who will only know 9/11 as something in history). Today's plans include a music festival. But I will wear an Old Navy Flag shirt today - I try to wear red/white/blue on 9/11 as a rememberance. Maybe I can get Alan to wear one also.

Has it been 9 years? I still try to avoid Lower Manhattan. When my grandmother died in 2005, the limo passed the towers on the way to the cemetary in Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. I felt weird that day and haven't been that way since.

The company I work for lost 4 people that day as they were in the Towers on the 82nd floor (I joined them in 2002). I've heard their stories. I do know of some people who died that day - a former co-worker, my cousin's close friend who was the head of the Port Authority, a friends sister's ex-husband - I suspect many people around the tri-state area have a connection like that.

I always try to wish people whose birthday is today a happy birthday (I know 2 in real life, I think I know one on LJ). It's never been the same for them - or anyone else.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I live in NJ, but work in NY - on 9/11 I was on jury duty 10 minutes from my house, instead of being across from the WTC - I exited the subway through the trade center towers.

I actually was dismissed from jury duty in time to hear the 2nd tower falling on the radio and could see the smoke from the supermarket 2 minutes from my house and see all the emergency vehicles go by on rt 80. And it was weird hearing no planes flying overhead.

[minemouse.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine what that day must have been like of all of you in and around NYC. I was in Minnesota and we were scared and felt under attack.
A day we will never forget.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

I know two couples with wedding anniversaries on Sept. 11. One of them got married on Sept. 11, 1948 -- today is their 62nd anniversary, and yes, they are both alive and together.

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

This is the first year since it happened that I was able to ignore everything. Maybe because it was a Saturday and I was far removed from the area. I wouldn't let my husband put the TV on any station showing the days events. I've had enough. I was here (five blocks away) when it happened, lost a cousin and four friends. I pass the sight all the time. It still makes me cry.

I wish we could just move on. It's so very painful still. And, like you, when the weather is the same as that day was, it makes it all the more real for me.

(((hugs)))