Wow, Seven years

I still can’t believe it, I still can’t wrap my mind around it. I was working in advertising sales and was in my car in a parking lot looking at my schedule for the day, it wasn’t very full.  I had the car radio on and the breaking news sound came on. Three hours later i was still in that parking lot, I had called my Sister, my Dad, my friend who has a friend that lived in NYC.  I couldn’t quite decide what to do, sitting there in that car in a parking lot, I felt so small.  I finally got moving and headed over to the mall – I needed to get in front on a TV set. (at the time I was 45 minutes from home)

I went to the electronics department in Sears were me and a crowd of others stood staring at the coverage. Sears had put 10 different TVs in 10 different sizes on 10 different news channels. We all just stood there no one was speaking, several had tears running down there face, most had their mouth gaping just wondering and hoping and praying.

I called my afternoon clients and rescheduled and drove home. I sat on the couch for the rest of the day and night in total disbelief. I watched over and over again as the first tower came down, then the second. All those people covered in ash running, not sure which way to run and not wanting to leave anyone behind. The images of that week and all those weeks after are so engraved in my minds eye. 

I did not know anyone working in the towers, I didn’t know anyone living in the city, I didn’t know anyone that was flying that day. But I felt the loss the dispair the fear so deeply.  So tomorrow when the news shows those images again on this 7th anniversary I know we will all re-live where we were at that moment, and the feelings we had/have.

I have been to NYC once in my life. It was 2 weeks before 9/11/01. I was at training for my new job in Albany for 2 weeks and me and another girl took the train into the city just for the afternoon. I got to see a broadway show, eat at a famous restaurant, a walk around the city for a few hours. I was just there for an afternoon and the city had put its mark on my heart in that short period of time. I haven’t been back but I hope to soon.