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One year ago today, I woke from a pleasant slumber, just like any other day. It was 7:30 am Central Time, and I went through my normal routine of showering and breakfast before work. I left my home at 8:10 am, hopped in my car and started off to work. Just like any other day.
This turned out to be not just any other normal day in my life. This day, September 11, 2001 changed me forever. I turned on my radio in the middle of a local radio DJ reading news copy on the events unfolding in New York City. At that point I thought to myself how horrible it must have been for an airplane to accidentally crash into the World Trade Center. It was't but 5 minutes later that news came from Washington DC that an airplane had crashed into the Pentagon. A few minutes after that, we were told that a second airplane had crashed into the other World Trade Center tower.
At that time I felt true mortal fear for the first time in my life. Before my eyes, the very structure of protection I had come to know, toppled like a house of cards in a breeze. We, as Americans, had been attacked. At that time by unknown foes, later to be found out as al-Qaeda. Live before my very eyes, I watched people die, my fellow countrymen suffer, and my ideal of a safe home shattered. That day 3000 people lost their lives, 3000 people whose memory will stay with me forever.
Now, it is one year later. The world has again changed, pitting man against man in such futile efforts that are so typical of our human history. I will never forget what happened that day, as will many of you, regardless of your nationality or origin will ever forget such an event as this, or one that happened on your own soil.
What I ask next is simple, and not hard to understand or comply to. All of you out there, that may hold some type of rash judgment or need to baselessly insult the events of this day, remember that people died in this tragedy. People who may have had absolutely nothing to do with the events that provoked such a response. People who that morning awoke ksssing their husbands, wives, and children goodbye before they went off to their impending doom. People who died because of a fanatical belief that death is the only true way to resolve conflict.
Please refrain from the standard heartless and thoughtless attitude that has plagued these boards when it comes to a topic of serious conversation. Remember that this was a horrible event, and regardless of who you are, where your country is, and what your government may have done... you are still equally as vulnerable as we, and such horrors can occur to you at any time.
Remember the people. Remember the day. Remember we are all one people, and nothing will ever change that.
This turned out to be not just any other normal day in my life. This day, September 11, 2001 changed me forever. I turned on my radio in the middle of a local radio DJ reading news copy on the events unfolding in New York City. At that point I thought to myself how horrible it must have been for an airplane to accidentally crash into the World Trade Center. It was't but 5 minutes later that news came from Washington DC that an airplane had crashed into the Pentagon. A few minutes after that, we were told that a second airplane had crashed into the other World Trade Center tower.
At that time I felt true mortal fear for the first time in my life. Before my eyes, the very structure of protection I had come to know, toppled like a house of cards in a breeze. We, as Americans, had been attacked. At that time by unknown foes, later to be found out as al-Qaeda. Live before my very eyes, I watched people die, my fellow countrymen suffer, and my ideal of a safe home shattered. That day 3000 people lost their lives, 3000 people whose memory will stay with me forever.
Now, it is one year later. The world has again changed, pitting man against man in such futile efforts that are so typical of our human history. I will never forget what happened that day, as will many of you, regardless of your nationality or origin will ever forget such an event as this, or one that happened on your own soil.
What I ask next is simple, and not hard to understand or comply to. All of you out there, that may hold some type of rash judgment or need to baselessly insult the events of this day, remember that people died in this tragedy. People who may have had absolutely nothing to do with the events that provoked such a response. People who that morning awoke ksssing their husbands, wives, and children goodbye before they went off to their impending doom. People who died because of a fanatical belief that death is the only true way to resolve conflict.
Please refrain from the standard heartless and thoughtless attitude that has plagued these boards when it comes to a topic of serious conversation. Remember that this was a horrible event, and regardless of who you are, where your country is, and what your government may have done... you are still equally as vulnerable as we, and such horrors can occur to you at any time.
Remember the people. Remember the day. Remember we are all one people, and nothing will ever change that.
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