It's weird because I can remember that morning like it was yesterday. I got up a little late because I was up watching the Giants/Cowboys game on Monday Night Football the night before. I was getting ready for class and I was listening to Z100. I never watched TV in the morning, I listened to music and Z-Morning Zoo, back when the show was actually good. I remember that they came back in a frenzy and then went right into another song, I didn't think much about it because things happen in live radio. I finished getting ready and I was on the computer checking a few things and all of a sudden it was like wind taken from the sail. Reality struck harder than anything I had ever felt in my life. The Zoo cut to the Ch. 7 news because Tower 1 was on fire, so I tuned in obviously for the main curious reason to see what the hell was going on. Right when I tuned in I saw the plane crash into Tower 2 and it felt like I had no weight or strength in my legs and my body gave out and I blobbed on the bed in shock. At that moment, James was outside in the backyard because he was getting something for my dad and I frantically called him over to the window and just pointed to the screen and his jaw almost hit the ground.
I spent the rest of that day calling my friends, drove to school, drove to my sisters, finally came home and just sat and watched. I went back to my sisters and saw the smoke from the top of the hardware store. It was surreal. It was like living a disaster movie, except it was totally real.
I remember making a frantic phone call to Nadine because she had told me that she was thinking about going into the city that morning, just because. Luckily she was still asleep when I called her, but yeah I was extremely worried.
When nightfall came, I was still on the phone like crazy. Finally I got into my room to try to relax and Joanna called me crying and terrified. Even though she lived down the street from a police station, every sound was freaking her out and she didn't know what was next, if anything. I told her to relax, just pop in a CD of music, and fall asleep. Everything was going to be okay. I turned on the radio and the only station that had cut back to regular music was K-Rock and I knew I couldn't fall asleep to rock music, so I popped in my Disney Country CD, which I find funny now because I wasn't even a country fan yet, and finally fell asleep to that.
That whole day was a life changer, as I know it was for everyone else. No one I talked to or hung out with was at all the same after that day. It was struck alot of us pretty hard, especially since WTC was actually the PATH drop off for most of us in high school when we went on trip to see musicals and other shows.
Now I look back and I'm not the same person I was back then. The world isn't the same as it was back then. There are a lot of younger people that don't know what the world was like on 9/10/01. Life was different, things were different, this country was different. That day united our country like never before, and while here in 2010, it's not as united as it was then, it will forever be a day that changed our life.
II still have this photo up in me and Mandy's bedroom as a tribute and a remembrance.
It's really rough to talk about that morning and the emotions that were going through my head and heart. This might actually be the first time in nine years I've talked about it and didn't get teary-eyed and over emotional while doing it.
That day changed me, changed all of us, changed our country. All I ask is to remember it because at the time it seemed impossible that would ever happen, we were invincible, no one would ever think about attack us, especially not the heart of Manhattan and the nation's capital. Alot of people died that day, families still suffer to this day. Keep them in your prayers and hearts today, I know I am.
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