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Originally posted by ASUADPi
Even now 4 years later. This day is still etched in my mind. I remember everything about that day. I don't know if it is because I knew 4 years ago I was going to be a teacher so I just "soaked" everything in or what, but I will always remember what I did that day and how I felt. (Ironically 9-11-01 was bid day).
It's amazing how "raw" it is, even now.
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The horrors of 9/11 are the horrors that visited older people when President Kennedy was killed. I could tell you all of exactly what happened, minute by minute, from the second the first tower was hit - some of it surprisingly funny, the rest as horrifying as the rest of the nation. I had worked in the shadow of the WTC (actually, did some training); the week before, I was in DC. I was writing part time for a now defunct soccer publication, and did an article about that day for it; unfortunately, its circulation was so small, I can't even access it online.
But the essense of the article was about my meeting & chatting with a Fairfax fireman while in a DC bookstore, a few days earlier. In the days to come, as they showed footage of the ruins of the Pentagon, I saw him, soot and grime carved into his face, sitting in his uniform with other firemen, gasping for breath with tears rolling down his face. I can remember his words to me (which will sound somewhat out of context), "Stand by your man and our country. We'll never let you down, so long as we stand firmly together."
This is a day of national mourning, whether or not you actually knew anyone personally involved. May we never forget.
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