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Never Forget!
Donna
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Never Forget
Today brings back memories that sometimes are hard to think about. I was in Washington D.C. for National Guard Duty the day the plane hit the Pentagon. The Double Tree Hotel I was staying in was right across the street from the Pentagon. I was at the Army National Guard Readiness Center (about 2 miles from the Pentagon) when the planes hit. I was more fortunate than 2 others in our Colorado contingent who were actually in the Pentagon when the plane hit. They survived but the chaos and trauma was hard on them. When we were told to leave the building I was in, it took us 2 hours to get back to the hotel even though it was only 2 miles away. Traffic was horrible and cell phones did not work. When I got back to the hotel I was able to use the land line to call my family at home in Colorado to reassure them I was safe. The fear I felt that day still comes back to haunt me sometimes. The sad part is 18 years later we really are no safer from terrorist, and the general public does not take it seriously. The smell of the burning jet fuel smoke being sucked in to our hotel air conditioning will stay with me forever. The relief when we landed back in Colorado on September 12th stays with me too! The world changed on September 11, 2001. Please pray for our troops deployed that they may safely return home. God Bless America!
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It is so impressed to read this... That day I was home with our daughter on my 'mammy-day'; she was only 9 months old at that moment and I just started working at the local policeforce (as a civilian; not wearing arms) and thinking that the world had changed again... and asking myself how the would be for her growing up...
ReplyDeleteOne promice I made than and I did the same after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Berlin, Bruxelles and more: The few crazy people who think that killing others is the answer will never win! We still will go out and try to live a life worth living and find others who will live like that and try to bring joy in eachothers life and pass that positivity and joy on... Not forgetting what has happened, but not letting fear be the most important in our lives, but love and kindness...
Hope you can follow what I mean...for now a big hug for you! Gerrina