Comments on: Remembering September 11th

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:02:50 +0000

Im still trying to recover mentally from it. reading all the memorials for the past few days has been tough. i still dont know how to explain it to my kids.

By: Tony L. Jefferson Jr.

Tony L. Jefferson Jr. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:01:17 +0000

I was in the 10th grade when it happened, i was in my morning class when the teacher abruptly turned on the news, what i saw changed my life forever. I joined the army back in 2003, and your quote at the end of this post says it all, Freedom is not Free, which is exactly what i am fighting for, 7 years later!

By: Kristi

Kristi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:23:03 +0000

@Melissa – That is so sad. That day affected many people across the country, and even across the globe, directly and indirectly.

@Matt – I still feel a bit anxious when I see photos or videos. I don’t think anyone will forget the mix of emotions they had that day.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:19:08 +0000

I too will never forget walking in to see the morning news that day, and thinking it was an odd time to be screening some kind of contemporary horror movie. That’s all I thought it could be. I was still realising what was happening when I saw the second plane crash, and even thinking of that now, I feel it in my stomach.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:18:35 +0000

I remember that morning too. But more clearly, I remembre a phone call I got a few days later. It was the husband of a client. I was a florist and had done the flowers for their wedding and their baby shower. He was asking me to do the flowers for his wife’s funeral. She was on the plane that hit the second tower.

It had been a horrible few days – but that phone call knocked the wind out of me. I remember driving to their home and placing memorial arrangements around an empty urn while their daughter sat on her grandmothers lap laughing.

I often wonder how they are now, so many years later.