Today was a pretty busy day. I went to the mall to shop for a computer. There were a lot of people there. I wonder if they were thinking about what they were doing 9 years ago, if they thought about the day our world changed, how their lives were different? The day the impossible became reality. Apocalyptic scenes flashed across our TV screens. I was in 11th grade. I was in 2nd period English. We sat and watched the second plane hit the tower. No one knew what to do or say. We then got sent to our home rooms. Mine was with the director of the theater so we sat in the school's theater watching the nightmare unfold on the huge theater screen. I remember feeling numb, confused. I didn't know anyone in NYC or at the Pentagon, but my world was still shaken, as everyone's was. I also remember it was a beautiful fall day. Blue skies without a cloud in Ohio, while the world was falling apart in New York.
I just watched a show on the History Channel called 102 Minutes. It was a compilation of people's sound bites and footage from New York that day. It was really horrific, but I couldn't change the channel. The worst part was the people waving flags out of the windows of the trade center, so they would not be forgotten in the rescue effort.
I rarely reach out to the powers above, but on this day "God please bless our nation and those who lost their lives." What a terrible day.
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