Remembering 9/11
Posted on 11 September 2009, at 9:51 am, by Judie Lipsett
photo by Jerry Salamone
It seems like only yesterday, it seems like a lifetime ago. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial jetliners. Two were crashed into the Twin Towers of the Word Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington DC, and one into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly three thousand people lost their lives that morning, and nothing has been the same since.
Anyone who was of an age to understand what was happening that day will always remember where they were when they first heard. Those who watched the news as the towers fell will never forget their feelings of horror and loss. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, grandparents, friends, business associates – every person who died that day left someone behind who cared for them, and my hope is that someday these people will find a measure of peace for their loss.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks we saw a kinder gentler nation; people treating each other with even more respect and care than usual and going out of their way for one another whether they were strangers or not. I hope that we will continue doing so.
It’s been said before, and it’s been said much more eloquently, but I would just like to say again that we will never forget.
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September 11th, 2009 at 10:50 am
If you look very closely at the avatar I use, you will notice I am wearing a blue, 9/11 commemorative hat. Semper Retenio… we will always remember…
September 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of the first tower… and how I watched the second one get hit on live tv before my own eyes…
God Bless those you lost their lives that day, and even more the people who contiually work today to keep us safe…
September 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
It’s funny. In the last year, the room I watched the second plane hit on TV on 9/11 was torn up. It’s no longer there. I remember crowding around the only TV between 2 buildings. Then the word came down that we were closing early and yet it was payroll day. We rushed payroll to completion and then my boss at the time drove me home (rode the bus back then too). Sometime after the air travel shutdown, I remember walking around and just getting the feeling of a eery silence. I looked up into the sky and there were no planes that I were accustomed to seeing and then I saw 3 sets of contrails at a VERY high altitude. AT the end of those was a larger plane and 2 smaller military planes. That was probably President Bush or VP Cheney.
The very next day, life was semi back to normal, but not really. My son went to a Early Childhood Education center that was close to the airport. We went to go pick him up and as we drove past Port Columbus Airport, the runways were quiet. There were no planes landing or taking off and no activity on the tarmac. That is the weirdest feeling when your used to seeing all sorts of activity.
A year later, I was training at a IBM training location in the DC Area near Crystal City and the Pentagon. I took my wife and kid with me on that trip and we got off at the Pentagon to see it. The repairs had been made and it looked perfect. In a tower on the Metro side there was a couple soldiers guarding this side of the building. I had a pair of binoculars with me and handed them to Luke and when he looked at the soldiers, one of them waved at him and he thought that was the coolest!
I will never forget that year of memories. I will NEVER forget.
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