Today is 5 years since 9-11. I still remember sitting at my desk downtown, thinking it was a small plane and not even guessing it could be terrorism. I called Scott and said, did you hear about that plane that hit that building in New York? Honestly, I wasn’t even extremely familiar with the buildings. I of course had seen them and knew about them but the extent of their importance and significance did not dawn on me. I remember people at work moving to a conference room to watch and one girl crying when the building came down.
And today, they replayed that same footage I watched. And it all felt like a horrible movie. How much they didn’t know!!! At that exact moment that the buildings were burning and then falling, two more planes were in the air getting ready to do more damage. At that moment, the guys on the plane were calling their family and 911 operators were answering calls about planes the media didn’t even know about. How helpless I felt watching it over again. I saw the people walking from the cloud of dust and I wanted to scream Run! You need to Run!
It’s just horrible watching it all again. Of course new tapes talk about new plots. And that gives you a whole other sense of hopelessness and helplessness. I can’t but selfishly hope it never affects me or anyone I know but I also know it will affect someone and I feel so horrible for them. I pray for all the family and friends of those already affected and Lord help, pray for anything else this country has to go through.