I remember.
On this 10 year anniversary, it is more important than ever to remember the moment in our life when everything changed forever. Many events take place on any given frozen moment in your life when you look around and realize that your life will no longer resemble what you found as normal just moments ago. That moment for me, as it was for many, began on 9-11-2001.
I was in my car on the way to work. I was listening to Bob & Tom (radio talk show) as I normally did each morning during any typical work day before that day. I remember the talk show stopped and made the announcement that a plane had hit one of the twin towers in NYC. I remember feeling uneasy about that moment. I have always been someone that thinks about the worst case scenario when some event of any magnitude takes place and I remember thinking that someone did it on purpose. When I was pulling into my parking space at work I sat and listened to the show as it had turned into a more serious show from its typical humor based material. I walked into my office and was surprised that no one else had realized what had happened. I was more surprised that no one in the office seemed to understand the importance of that moment. I turned my radio on near my computer and tried to locate a station giving any information out about the event. Getting any kind of reception in the Truman State office building was near impossible but I did find an AM station that was reporting about the event. As the time passed, everyone in the office started to understand the importance of that moment when the radio reported that the second tower had been hit by a second plane. From that moment on and into the rest of the day, nobody in the office spoke much. Everyone just sat there helpless as each attack took place. Listening to the information that the Pentagon was hit....and the possibility that there were many planes incoming with unknown targets in mind. It made me sick. I remember feeling so much pain for the many families that had, in one moment, been torn completely apart by one evil act of hate. I remember thinking to myself that it takes a very weak and scared individual or group of idiots to carry out such a blatant act of such cowardice. Its as if they hated someone so much but was so scared of them that instead of trying to fight the one they hated, they instead turned their attack on some innocent woman pushing a child in a baby cart down the street. True cowardice. It was not some master plan carried out by some intelligent mastermind. It was as easy as throwing a grenade into a fish bowl full of fish. This will always be portrayed as some long thought of plot by some secret terrorist agency far overseas...but to me it is what it is...a very simple plot thought up by the very simple minds of some less than human trash living in huts in a desert with an over abundance of unearned money and the ability to walk onto a plane and scare innocent people in order to crash the plane.
I will always feel pain for those lost in the terrible attack on innocence in this country.
God Bless all of those who were lost on that horrible day. God Bless those still coping with their losses. God Bless those who are coping with sickness now after breathing all of that poison while trying to dig out our loved ones. God Bless all of the hero's that stood on that sacred ground and gave their lives so that there was even a small chance that they could save someone from that hell even knowing that the chance probably did not exist.
God Bless America
I will never forget.
1st and goal on the 1 and you cant get the TD???? The fans want to get behind you bud. I want to believe you can pull together...you just do NOT get the job done! Red Zone disaster! Orton: Get the ball out of your hands faster....better yet....tap out to Tebow. 1st and goal on the 1 with Tebow? How ya think that would have panned out guys? Ya...we all know how that woulda panned out....with a big win against a team that was thought to be a monster...and an away game at that. Instead...loss.
