remembrance

just had to post this one again. sorry for the repeats.


Very often life gets in the way, or time heals and we tend to not remember the horror that went on during the time.

This is pics from 911 I was sent in the email. it is a powerpoint/website...so you need internet and powerpoint. 9-11-2001. http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/2947930/256244926/name/911AerialPhotos.pps

also. dont forget Oklahoma bombing. It was 4-19-1995.

I have not made it to new york, but I did make it to oklahoma.

I have a family member that was almost caught in that mess, he usually goes to the library across the street, however, that morning his cat was sick, so he just dropped off the books and went home. It happened shortly after he left the area, but before he got home.

Cass and I went on a vacation, and stopped there. The media was everywhere. Apparently they were waiting for the sentencing to be announced for one of the two suspects, I dont remember now. What I remember was pretty bad. A older person, probably someone's grandma or wife, was still torn up and was not able to walk to the site from the parking area, it was still too raw, 2 years later. The memorial had not been built yet, still a chain link fence. I took some pictures that are put awaysomewhere. I turned my back to the chainlink fence and took pictures of the building that was across the street. The whole face of the building was gone. It looked like boxes of rooms. no outter wall. You could see the twisted metal from the frame of the building. Suffice to say, between the lady that was still horror stricken and could not make it to the site, to the media that was all over the place, not letting people have their space at all, and the building across the street that was still partially standing, you could feel what had happened there, could feel the spirits looking for peace.

It is something I will never forget.

As for NY...I know where I was at the time. Work. We have vendors and customers there. I remember calling one of them, to see if she was ok. She told me, she worked down the street from the twin towers. Was not able to get ahold of her child or the daycare, and their building was in lockdown. She was not able to leave. I can only imagine being in that situation.

A friend of mine's brother worked at the pentagon. apparently the plane there, stopped on the other side of the wall of his office. Amazing stories one never forgets.

oklahttp://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/

911http://www.national911memorial.org