9/11 Remembered 15 years later.20:20 Sep 11 2016
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Looking in my journal as I wanted to repost a 9/11 one. 15 years. Seems like yesterday....
Since I can't find the post I will just rewrite what I wanted to say.
Fall day, wonderful weather. We didn't have a job at work so I was hand washing my pickup, Dad working on some little project watching me. I think he was working a putting new ends on battery cables, but can't remember all that clear.
What I can remember was my sister telling me how on the radio it came over that a plane had hit one of the tower's in New York. I remember as we both talked about how it had to been a problem with the plane as it's not like you could miss them.
I left to go to a car wash just a few miles away to use the vacuum to clean out the inside of my truck, knowing my father was here in case something came in. When the vacuum shut off I could hear my phone ringing. My sister- telling me to come home now.
She said, and I can remember being at that car wash when the works of "We are under attack." came out of her mouth. So I drove home to find the office locked up, the warehouse locked and the cars at our parents home. The TV was on and we sat and watched.
My sister told me she had called the army base which we dealt with almost every day, the three ladies and one male inspector who were unaware of the attack, turned on the radio. They called back about a hour later saying they were being sent home, and thanked my sister for calling and checking on them as they couldn't have a TV in the offices at that time. They locked down the base, and order all workers off the base.
Dad told me to go get cash out of the bank, and he went to fuel up all the trucks and cars. If it had a gas tank- he filled it. Remember my dad was born in 1926. He was a Marine. He went thru gas rations, food rations before if we went to war. He also remember trying to move the military moves during that time- you needed as much fuel on hand as you could get. Of course the past of rations did not happen, but he acted on his past history, and I think it was a way to feel like he was in control of something. And to prep for what came after as the military moves did change - we got really busy.
He was the only one in the family who had been to New York, inside the Towers. He had delivered inside them, telling us how you drove down into the basement to unload. And how he would never in a thousand years would think those big buildings could of fallen. He was sadden to see how wrong he had been.
I remember crying, my mother and sister crying, my father sad, and my brother just shocked and not understanding what was going on. I remember the depression my mother went thru as by then she was at home, unable to walk so she sat and watched the news for hours on end, for months, years.
So I remember watching the tower's falling. I remember the dust cloud, the gasp from all the family as it happen live on our TV. And thinking how bad it must of been in person as folks ran to get away.
I remember. As in the days of great loss- you remember.
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