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September 10, 2004
A Day of Remberance
September 11th, a day like all the rest but now I will always remember the year too. September 11th 2001. A day that started out like any other and ended like none other I have ever lived. I like so many couldn't help but watch the images being flashed on television. I close my eyes and I still see the towers falling; still in disbelief.
I was in shock. Two days later I woke up in the middle of the night and found myself unable to walk through the apartment. I was scared; truly petrified. I sat in the living room, in the dark, unable to bring myself to walk the 60 feet to the bathroom. I recognized the symptoms. I was suffering from post-traumatic stress.
I had just recently recovering from years of this type of stress and I knew a tried and true technique of living in a dangerous situation - denial! I was no more in danger on September 14, 2001 than I had been on September 10th, so I could go on believing that I was safe, despite the evidence to the contrary. It worked.
Of course our government in an effort to justify their spending billions of dollars does their collective best to keep us forever aware of the danger. I do my best to ignore the obvious and I go on believing I am safe. I knew I had fully recovered when last year when the power went down, not only in my building and on my block, but all over New York City and most of the Eastern seaboard, and thought of a terrorist attack didn't even cross my mind. I was just worried about my computers and the Internet.
To all of those who gave their lives on September 11th, 2001. I will never forget.
Posted by photocartoonist at September 10, 2004 11:29 PM