i dont think anyone who lived thru that day and saw what happened will ever consider it a blip....
it is a defining day...we all know where we were..who called us..or how we found out....i remember it being a slamming beautiful early fall day...i was painting outside when my husband called...my reaction..how the hell can someone not see the wtc? i remember his voice..telling me..it was terrorist and to go inside and turn on the tv....i didnt move for hours...the shock....i called my son...i just rounded up my loved ones..accounting for them..even if i knew they were not in danger...the viseral reaction...to the people jumping....to the towers following...
no i dont think it will ever be a blip
I was working in a place without a TV.
Someone was listening to the radio and giving us reports...
"A second plane hit the other tower"
"The Pentagon was hit"
"A plane has crashed in Pennsylvania"
"They can't find several other planes"
"The State Department has been bombed"
"The tower just collapsed"
"The other tower collapsed"
I felt like I was in a room that was pitch black, and someone else was in there punching me...but I couldn't see them, and I couldn't stop them.