That day was so surreal. I remember checking the NY Times front page around 7 or so (my time) in the morning and i see a little blip: "BREAKING NEWS: Plane crashes into World Trade center".
I remember thinking "some idiot novice pilot crashed his cessna into a skyscraper". I remember showing it to my coworker and we had a little chuckle over it....man, how can you be so dumb as to hit a building THAT big. Needless to say, a few minutes later we weren't laughing anymore..... My boss came around and sent everyone home not long after the second tower was hit. It was an absolutely beautiful day here in KC.....but the sky looked so ominous anyway. I'll never forget the sight of the contrails in the sky.....2 or 3 big looping circles in the sky as all aircraft were immediately ordered to land. Those smoke ribbons in the sky were so beautiful...and yet so amazingly frightening. I was living with my brother at the time and he came home from work too. We grabbed some beers and started throwing horseshoes in the back yard. Sun was shining, beer was cold, company was good......yet we barely talked.....had a few nervous laughs.....avoided the subject on both of our minds. Later that night I finally cried. The images were just too much. Even now thinking back on it, 13 years later......man.....my emotions are still so raw. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote: > > Memories of 9/11 for me are always and will always be tied to this list. I > was more scared that day than I ever really admitted to, and having the > members of the list at that time talking to one another, and calling out > for each other, and making sure those we knew in NY were safe, was > comforting. Comforting during a time when I thought planes were going to > drop out of the sky and on our heads. I don't think I left the apartment > for days. I was IM'ing with someone and reading the list that morning and > had the news on when the messages started coming in. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community%40houseoffusion.com/msg10014.html > > https://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community%40houseoffusion.com/msg09981.html > > I lived so close I could smell the towers burning. I don't know why we had > to be attacked. I don't understand nor do I care to understand, the > political issues behind any of it. If there were any. I don't go out of my > way to memorialize the day. I just quietly think back to how I felt, and > what I saw, and where I sat. > > This list has been through a lot. And I barely participate. I have almost > left myself for my own reasons. But hitting the kill switch has proved to > be harder to do than I thought. And I've been right there. Sitting on the > website. Unsubscribe selected. And unable to hit submit. > > But it's a REALLY sad day when Mama Maureen is so exasperated and fed up > that she has to bow out of here. > > I wish people would consider how the words they so carelessly type on their > keyboards are taken to heart by some. Forever archived on the internet. > Forever showing people just how cruel someone can be. You never ever know > what the last straw is for someone. What the last "comeback" or "dig" is > that sends that person off the ledge. > > Just be cognizant of what you type. What purpose does it serve to be so > downright cruel to one another that you have to call people names because > they don't agree with you? Or they don't have the same political party? Or > religious beliefs? Or even like cats or dogs? Or children? > > > Trolls will troll ... why feed them? > > I'm just sad today. That this once really great list has come to this. > > E with a sad K > and no muffins. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372561 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
