I'm going to do something
unusual, and post here and my other site- and not about fashion or stuff around
town.
On 9/11/01, I was a college freshman at Mercer University. I was in class on the
second floor of Stetson- the business and education building. It was some kind
of freshman orientation class, UNV 100 I believe. We heard something was
happening, how we heard I cannot remember but I do remember we urged our
teacher to let us go and see. After some perusation, she let us go downstairs.
The first tower of course had already been hit, they had CBS News on this large
screen that took up the whole wall. When I heard Dan Rather’s voice it all
became real.
The day was kind of blurry,
I honestly can’t remember exactly seeing the second plane hit, I think I did.
What I remember is one classmate was very upset: her father worked in one of
the towers. Another classmate and fellow ADPi suggested we try to organize a
campus blood drive, so we called the Red Cross: they were already booked up
with people wanting to give blood and do something.
I’m pretty sure we had a candlelight
vigil that night as well, someone who was there can remind me.
I remember also, that year
one of our required readings was this book called Jihad vs. McWorld, that
professor now seems prophetic.
I have no wise words,
nothing really of importance to say, other than this is what I remember. Being
a college freshman, wanting so much to make a difference in the world and to
see it change right in front of you- it still impacts me today. I suppose it
always will. I was a political science major, and 9/11 affected almost every
class I took, aside from the classical political science classes.
It’s just heartbreaking, I
think about those families, the children who were left behind, the children who
must have died- I believe there was a daycare in the towers. I believe being a
parent puts things in a different light as well.
I am watching this program
on the History Channel at the moment- and I am hearing the story of one person
for the first time. It seems there is always a new story, every time I watch. I
suppose for this reason, and to pay tribute, I will watch every year. To
remember. They deserve that much from us.
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