Five years ago, I was working as a telemarketer, calling old people to offer them a "great deal!" when reports came in that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Five years ago, I was acting in a musical. I played the bad guy who in one scene pulled out a gun and shot someone. I wondered if our country would be going to war where young men like me would be pulling triggers for real.
Five years ago, I was planning to move to New York City to pursue my career in acting. I didn't feel scared, but I wondered if it would be dangerous. I wondered if the theatre industry would be able to stay open. I wondered if it would matter if it did.
Five years ago, I didn't understand how depraved the people who hate us are. Nor did I have any concept of how greedy, self-involved, and wasteful we are, nor how hateful we could be.
Five years ago, I'd like to believe that politicians remembered that they were humans for about five minutes.
Five years ago, I felt enraged when seeing people in other lands celebrating over our tragedy. Then my father helped me turn that anger to pity and mercy for people who don't know anything else.
Five years ago, I couldn't get into the blood center because it was overcrowded. They told me to come back the next day. Now they call me the minute my six weeks are up because they're so desperate for donors.
Five years ago wasn't really that long ago, but it was an entirely different world.
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8 Cachinnations
Five years ago I was in Venezuela watching all the news I could in a foreign language to find out what was going on. We, as American citizens living abroad, were advised not leave our house for days.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago i was sitting one friends couch wondering if some other friends were still alive. Then I wondered why...
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago I was in Argentina crowding into a small dorm room with other students from the U.S.A. trying to watch the news and find out what was happening.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago, I was watching Good Morning America when the most awful breaking news interrupted their regular programming. As it turned out, it interrupted much more than that...lives were ended, our nation was attacked,the world we live in was changed in a moment.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago today I was sitting in my cubicle at a local engineering firm when I overheard a co-worker telling someone that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. We then tried to no avail to get on the internet to find out more news. Finally, someone found a radio, and we gathered around it to find out what was happening. The news was horrifying enough over the radio, but when I got home that night I was horrified all over again when I saw the TV news. I am still trying not to be angry at the people cheering in the streets that day. I'm still praying for God to help me feel love for those people who have no hope because they don't know Jesus.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago I was in Guadalajara, trying to pull up CNN.com on the internet in my office there, and answering numerous calls from friends and loved ones on my cellular, because everyone seemed to know that I was going to be flying out of town on the 10th or 11th, but noone knew for certain where I was, or if I was travelling that morning.
Interesting the number of readers of this blog who were out of the country on September 11th.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago, I was working in loans at a credit union and the employees & the entire lobby watched in horror from our break room tv we had rolled in. You could hear a pin drop between the sniffing and tears.
Posted on 9/11/2006
Five years ago I was at work when my friend Dana let out a piercing scream when the towers were hit. I spent the next 5 hours crying in hysterics shocked by what they were showing as "news" as I saw people living through the towers and pentagon collapsing... Worrying that my now husband (who was in the Navy at the time) was going to have to go to war and I wouldn't get to see him again...
and praying that my step-dad, who frequented the pentagon on business, did not go that day...
Posted on 9/12/2006