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July 2009 
What will you never forget again?
Katrina
...driving to work on the morning of September 11th on the Long Island Expressway. It was such a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the sky was a pretty shade of blue and autumn was in the air. It had the crispness that I so look forward to every fall.
I was singing to a song on the radio, as I always do, and then a man's voice came on and said that a plane had hit one of the twin towers, but he didn't have many details. At first I thought that it was a small plane that had gone off course and my heart went out to the pilot and any passengers. But when the voice came back a few minutes later and said that a second plane had hit I knew this was no accident. At that point on my commute I was close enough to NYC that I could see smoke billowing up into the sky.
Just moments before I was taking in deep breaths of crisp autumn air, and all of a sudden I couldn't breathe because of the events that were unfolding. That black smoke kept pouring into the blue sky...
I will never forget that day and how the whole world seemed to change. Being so close had such a profound impact. For days afterwards you could smell the acrid smoke and you didn't dare to breathe too deeply for fear...
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WOW..we all had some strange experiences that day, thanks for sharing yours!
Aley
I hear you P1. I was at work, and my daughter called and said, Dad, turn on CNN right NOW!! I asked why, and she said a second airplane had flown into the second tower. I didn't know the first had been hit!
I can only imagine having been in NYC and seeing the whole thing as it unfolded . . .
… it is a feeling I hope that none of us will have to experience again…
And as the universe works in such mysterious ways, I had 4 or 5 speaking engagements scheduled right after 9/11. They had been planned months in advance. I think one was actually scheduled almost a year in advance. I had my hands full doing lots of light work around that time in NY. The good news is that so many people were so receptive to hearing about “the bigger picture.” There were many, many tears but there was also hope. We had just experienced such a horrific event that then caused so many good stories and heroic actions to take place. I am thankful that I was able to carry the message of possibility during that time. And I was thankful that the universe considered me worthy enough to carry such a big message to so many people.
We can only imagine the intensity of the emotions at that time as you presented your information . . . It seems that tragic events bring the best out in so many people. If only we collectively as human beings could find a way to tap into that positive energy when times are rolling along smoothly . . . What is it about our collective human nature that seems to require tragedy or traumatic events to make us aware/more appreciative of the good things in our lives?
No doubt about it , September 11th had effect on all of us. A co-worker lost his life partner in the towers… My neighbor, at that time, a police officer, went to assist at Ground Zero. The stories he told when he came home were heart wrenching……… My phone rang that evening, it was a wrong number. I heard an urgency in the women's voice that made me question if she was all right. She proceeded to tell me that she was calling her son to see if he was all right because he worked in the towers…As I was about to tell her she had the wrong number I found myself asking her for her number (I did not have caller I.D. at the time) and I would do the best to find out any information and get back to her. I heard the fear in her voice, my heart was sad. Fortunately, he was not in the towers at the time the tradgedy occured……so many questions…so much fear…so much pain…so many lives.
Since we live close to NYC, you could see the smoke from my daughter's apartment terrace….and later the beams of lights that shined where the towers once were. An eerie sight.
It was by far, something I will never forget.