Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ten Years Ago

Here it is...a decade anniversary of the tragic 9/11 day of 2001.  I was not alive during Word War II, nor when President Kennedy was assassinated.  That was of my parents generation.  They would always speak about what they remember from the war or what exactly there were doing when they found out the war ended or when Kennedy was shot.  My two remembrances are of knowing where I was at and what I was doing when Lady Diana was announced dead and when 9/11 happened. 

Ray and I were making breakfast on September 11, 2001.  We had a few rooms and he was cooking and I was sitting in our small office under the stairs.  The phone rang and it was our friend Kelly.  She told me that a plane hit one of the Trade Center buildings and she thought it might have been a small private plane in which the pilot may have had a heart attack or something.  That was one of the speculations circulating at that moment.  Ray and I turned on our small television in the kitchen and saw when the second plane hit the second tower. 

Over the next month this tragedy brought us a lot of work.  People who had scheduled vacations off work couldn't fly anywhere.  So they hopped in the car and drove to the closest sandy beaches...the shores of Lake Michigan in Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan.  In mid-October we were able to take our postponed trip to Key West.  We were in the Chicago airport terminal waiting to connect for our flight to Miani when George W. Bush came on the television and announced we were at war with Afghanistan. 

People flying were so afraid of being taken aside and searched that no one made any hassles at the airports.  People behaved and no one would hit the buzzer on the plane for a flight attendant...that would bring attention to them and might make the flight crew suspicious.  I loved flying at that time...people were so nice and cordial.  Now their behaviours are back to rude, obnoxious, and bossy. 

Today is a beautiful day.  One exactly like that day 10 years ago. 

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