9/11 Thoughts
Sep. 11th, 2010 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesliepearThe 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.
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.
