09-11-2006, 08:33 PM
9/11 was a sobering day for most Americans. It surely was for me. This morning I watched the MSNBC replay of their coverage of that morning, begun precisely to correspond with the timing of that morning. It brought back all the feelings of fear, frustration, anger, and shock. My son had been in the nearby Sears Tower in NYC when the planes hit. He called me on his cell phone before the phones went down. Living on the West Coast, I was just getting out of bed. At the time he didn't know what was going on. He asked me to turn on the TV and try to tell him what was happening. He was on foot in the street, hearing what he thought were F-16's fly over. He thought the whole nation was under attack. I guess it was.
I certainly hope all Americans will remember the lessons we learned that day - especially the lesson that continued freedom requires perpetual vigilence - and perhaps we can continue to stand only if we are united. We are at war with terrorism and will be for many years to come. I suspect we'll be hit again in a big way before it is over. Whether we survive as a nation will perhaps depend on whether we learn the lessons - or go back to sleep.
Glad to be an American - appreciating it more since that day.
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I certainly hope all Americans will remember the lessons we learned that day - especially the lesson that continued freedom requires perpetual vigilence - and perhaps we can continue to stand only if we are united. We are at war with terrorism and will be for many years to come. I suspect we'll be hit again in a big way before it is over. Whether we survive as a nation will perhaps depend on whether we learn the lessons - or go back to sleep.
Glad to be an American - appreciating it more since that day.
z~
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