Has It Really Been Ten Years?

I wasnt going to be yet another person who did a post on 9/11 but then i decided to anyway. We were out of town this past weekend and did in fact not put the tv on in order not to have to see all the sad stories again about that day ten years ago. It was a horrible day for many many people but again it was ten years ago. Growing up in London i was taught at an early age the horrors of what people can do to the place you live and feel safe in. My own parents were rasied during world war 2 and it certainly affected people very different then it did over there. My own parents were sent away at 15 months old to other families and not returned till they were five years old. Can you imgine that happening to your own beloved children? But thats how they were forced to live to protect there children during the war in England. I also got caught up in many many IRA bombings, both false and real during my years of working and living in London. How sad really that you get used to having to watch your back everywhere you go and think theres nothing wrong with it. Looking back it seems crazy but at the time it was normal. Ralph and i were also on Pam Am flight 103 a few weeks before it was blown up in the sky beween the Uk and the USA. It left London same time as when we were on it a few weeks earlier and never made it here. Everyone on board was killed. So to me i dont think i was in as much horror as most over 9/11. I had grown up with the IRA and the horror and killings they were always causing around London. But on this day ten years ago i was just arriving at work at the collection lawyer i worked for in draper. I started work at 7.00am so i pulled up outside a little before seven am. On the radio it talked about the first plane. Im sorry to say i didnt know where the World Trade Center was. I called Ralph up who was just waking up at home. (i thought it was in slc ha ha). He of course knew where it was and turned on the tv and woke Jay up. Both had visited there when in New York so were pretty shocked at what was going on. The second one hit just after i walked into work. We didnt have a tv there but we all had our radios on and listened to the events all day. One thing ive never understood tho is one of the ladies there, her name was Georgeanne had her brother on speaker phone. He lived in PA where that other plane went down. He was telling us how he could see the plane and then kinda was stressed and telling us he could see a streak of light flying towards it, then he claims it hit it. At the same time almost on the radio it said the plane had been shot down. Within two mins on the radio it clamied it had not been shot down. It was all very confusing and i still dont understand it too this day. Of course they say now the people on board were heros and took it down, but i can never forget what i hear Georgeanne brother say on the phone that day, i wont ever know of course. But a wonderful story of heros came out of that plane going down. After that our boss the lawyer who owned the company sent us all home. Most of our accounts were from back east and it was to honor them. Sadly after that i got laid off as all accounts were froze after that in respect of people back east and so i no longer had a job, lol. Luckily i got one a couple of weeks later at JMA where i still am today. So i went home and we did in fact keep our day normal. Kids still went to dance. I remember tho being mad as it was another moms turn to car pool and she didnt want to do it as she wanted to watch stuff so i was mad that i had to do it. lol. But like everyone else i was very sad about the events that day. It really didnt hit me how horrible it all was until i visited the site in march 2009 with the girls and the minerettes. It was only then looking at it and hearing our tour guide talk about walking out of a subway that day right into the middle of it, his first view was seeing people falling out of windows. He pointed to places in the busy traffic where they landed and show us marks on the white bridge there where they got hit when the towers fell, that it really really hit and i wanted to cry for the first time ever over it. We went inside the american express building opp the site and saw the names of people that worked there that had been in the twin towers that day and it really really hit. So thats when it really hit for me. On our recent trip two months ago we didnt go back there. It really is a sad sad place. I think the one thing i remember most from the tv that day was a tv person giving her report. Someone asked her what she was thinking as she looked at it. Her reply was heartbreaking but honest. She said.
What am i thinking? Im thinking of all the children whos mommys and daddys are not coming home tonight!. At that her voice broke up and she walked away from the camera.
I hope that in the ten years that have passed that the people whos lifes were affected by this horrible day have found some peace in there lifes and have been able to have moved on as best as anyone possibly could have. I hope that nothing like that every happens again anywhere. Its hard to know what really happened that day and who really was involved. There are some that have very different opinions about it and that i wont go into. Whatever was behind it my heart goes out to all those whos lifes were changed so terribly that day.