911 Revisiting Seven Years Ago-My Day of September 11th, 2001

Seven years is not a long time, but it is if you lost someone on 911.

I was one of the lucky ones, who did not have someone that I knew, lost in the Attack.

But, I remember that day well. As I do the day that President Kennedy was killed. Most Baby Boomers remember those days as though they were yesterday. Where we were and what we thought and felt. Days and events that make us different.

I was on my way to work and my neighbor was home. That was odd but not anything to get upset about. I made a mental note to call her when I got home to make sure she was alright and didn’t need anything. I was backing out of my drive and saw her running out of her house to me. Waving frantically…my reason for concern heightened, she was not a woman of alarm.

Never in my wildest imagination did I expect what was happening. Stopping my van and meeting her half way she asked me “did I know what was happening? No,” I replied what is happening. “The US is being attacked!” It did not hit home, it was not what i was expecting. “What do you mean attacked.” I replied. “Come and watch with me…come and watch it is all over the news.” Away she turned and ran back to her house me fast on her heels.

They were showing the first attack, over again. I stood there dumb founded, my hand on my heart, then covering my mouth. Finally I sat down in her blue chair and looked at her, she at me. The world had turned surreal, in just moments. then the second attack hit, then the pentagon and the other airplane. The world had gone crazy. I was numb and stunned.

I never knew what to do that day. I went back to my house and turned on CNN News. I turned on my computer. Life was never going to be the same and I knew it. I called my sister and made sure she knew what was going on and made sure we had a designated meeting place should something happen and we get lost from one another. We only lived a couple of blocks from each other. But that day it seemed continents to me.

I was in a daze. It was though the world had stopped. I couldn’t stay home. I needed something to do. So I got in my car and went to my antique and milliner shop. The town was empty. If there was news papers blowing by and tumble weeds it wouldn’t have surprised me.

There was no traffic. The only people I saw that day were travelers who had no idea what were going on. There were 12 people that day who came through town and I had the unlucky chore of telling them the news. I was the only shop open. It was a ghost town.

I sat there making hats, keeping my mind and hands busy. My little TV on, that I had never turned on since I opened my shop in 1999.

It was indeed the day the earth stood still. Finally, I gave up. I closed my shop up and went back home. That day for America will be a day that will always be remembered. As the day that JFK was killed, Martin Luther King Jr., Pearl Harbor was attacked and many such days. It was a reaction that was felt around the world. Seven years and it still seems like yesterday. And the reality of not being safe, has not gone away.

There are theories that it was not an attack of foreign origin. That it came from right here in the states. Perhaps we will never know who was behind the attack. Or at least not in my lifetime. Who ever the was behind the attack is evil. An American or someone from another country, Christian or another religion. It matters not to the dead only the living. My thoughts and prayers go out every year to the living, the ones left behind to carry on.

There are MILLIONS of links to 911 history, WTC 911, 華氏, 911 restoration, 911 Pentagon, fahrenhype, 911 music, 911 information, but the 911 pictures of the Attack will remain etched in our brains forever.

My Mother never forgave the Japanese for killing her brother Ernie Pyle. I sincerely hope that the survivors of 911 can and have found it in their hearts forgive.
Hate is an evil feeling. No one wins.
My prayers and thoughts are with you.

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

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