9/11 - 10 years later.

I will never forget it.

I remember in exact detail where I was, what I was doing and what I was thinking the moment I heard the first plane hit the north tower.  I remember almost everything about that day in surreal clarity.

I wasn't planning on writing a post about 9/11.  This is a book blog, after all, but I can't seem to not post something.  A small tribute, a tiny slice of homage on the worldwide web.  I'll keep it short.

I live 50 miles north of New York City.  My husband watched the towers fall from the roof of a building he was working construction on, I watched on a television screen.  I waited numbly until I heard that two dear friends were home safe and had not gone to work that day.  One of them called in sick and one is a Port Authority cop who happened to have switched shifts with somebody.

Less then a year later guests came to town and wanted to see the WTC site.  I didn't.  But I took them down anyway.  I had to go through the memorial site and museum that was erected at that time alone.  The experience was painful and powerful.

I understand not wanting to re-hash the memories and I understand wanting to move on and I understand not having a lot of time on a vacation.  However, if you are ever in NYC, whether it is 10 years later, 20 or 30, I encourage you to visit Ground Zero and pay tribute to the thousands of people who are now heroes in their own stories.

You will never forget it.


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