10 Years Later "Remembrance"

Where was I on 9/11/01 walking to the train station late for work because I was not feeling well that morning? In unusually Brooklyn style the trains were shut down and not working and the lady behind selling the metro cards was not aware of when they would be back on. It is crazy how vivid I can still remember that day. So I walked down the stairs from Sutter Avenue-Rutland Road jumped on the bus and went to the ChaseBank in Canarsie and road back home. The weird thing was I was not quite sure what was going but could not understand why it was so damn smoky!

By the time I sat on my coach my mother was calling me. She was worried and told me to turn on the television. While we watch the footage of the smoke filled towers together we did not expect the building to fall. I think that is what sticks in my head the most to watch buildings that I have walked in, my father picked up passengers from that area and friends who worked in that building to just collapse and fall. It was a shocking and scary moment that made me feel very humane! I think the saddest moment for me was instead of watching the tower lights that night from my tiny kitchen window but seeing the smoke that just looked dark and ugly. The reason I picked my cute little apartment was that beautiful site. Which I only enjoyed for two years barely it was amazing to watch them light them for Christmas.

The day after the office was closed but I took the train into the city any way just to look from the city we were on about 19th street at that time. It broke my heart to turn around and see smoke and knowing that the towers were gone. Union Park became like missing person’s posters. Picture and information of those people missing from the towers were posted all around. I am gratefully to not have anyone directly connected to me lost to that terrible day. Still it touches you to know that so many people are still dealing with that chunk of their hearts gone from that terrible death. Unexpected death is hard to deal with you still think that person will just show up. Ten years later footage, articles and pictures can still reduce me to tears.