Lynn and I were on our honeymoon in Jamaica. No television but the radio mentioned in a deep accented voice there was a report of an airplane crashing into TWC. Didn't think twice about it until we went by the televison room when I saw what I thought was a creepy movie ala Independence Day type. The folks told me it was CNN and these were pictures of the WTC. OMG the rest of the week everybody left but couldn't fly anywhere and the resort was getting empty (we had 8 more days left). When folks finally started to come in 6 days later we found out more. I didn't really get the full impact until we got home and put all the pieces together with pictures.
Today, 10 years later, the history channel had some facinating video on a number of documentaries and THAT really hit home, the horror, the grief the disbelief. I felt like I was living through it for the first time...
Changed our lives ? Hell yes it did. We no longer fly and are wary of any stranger of middle eastern descent. Shouldn't profile but I can't help it. Like the Japenese during WW2....
We have a much truer meaning of what being an American is now and the full understanding of the sacrifices many have made so we can live free. Isolationist me wants to put walls up around our borders......
God Bless America
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PA, NJ, CT, NC - Polo Ridge 2011
"The difficult we can do immediately the impossible just takes a little longer"
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