Showing posts with label panic and fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label panic and fear. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

9/11

The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack is this coming Sunday.

I don't think I can take it.

So I'm hoping that writing about it can help me get through this.

Yes, I remember 9/11. My husband woke me up, and said he had been called into work because "a plane crashed into the World Towers."

I got up immediately and turned on CNN. And watched as the second plane hit the second tower.

And yes, the world changed at that moment.

I never looked at a jet the same way again.

I spoke to more relatives in the next couple of weeks than I had in years.

My husband's job was suddenly much more important and his opinion a lot more valued.

I kept expecting 9/11 to happen again. And again. And again.

Our nation's innocence, if it can be called that, was taken away.

And I don't want to re-live it. I don't want to go over it again. I don't want to see the towers crash. I don't want to see the people running away, and jumping out the windows to their death, and the first responders racing in.

I don't think I'm a bad person. I just don't want to see it all again. I don't want to feel that pain - and that fear - and that pain.