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Thoughts On 9/11
"It was a day like any other day in New York City...
until it wasn't.
The sky was a beautiful, cloudless blue…
until it wasn't.
There was nothing but Fall in the air…
until two planes flew much too low.
The sounds of a busy New York morning
were the only sounds heard…
until two loud explosions broke through.
The masses sat at their desks quietly working…
until the sights and sounds of two sky scrapers
falling shattered their reverie.
People absent-mindedly rode up in elevators
to their work spaces …
until they ran screaming towards the stairwells,
pushing and shoving.
The streets were full of cars, buses, and trucks
fighting for a free route through the traffic,
leaning on their horns... until deadly silence
filled the air and all the cars and other vehicles
seemed to disappear, except the screams
of fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances.
The police and fire fighters routinely
manned their stations…
until they ran fearlessly towards
the burning buildings.
Busy New Yorkers, as always, kept to themselves on
the street, on the buses, in the subways…
until suddenly every stranger
turned into a good Samaritan.
They were indifferent about their country
and their countrymen…
until some evil beings tried to destroy both
our land and spirits and we became one.
We only fleetingly thought about the fire fighters
and law enforcement in our city…
until they were the bridge
between life and death for so many.
We all took for granted
our perfect life here in the USA…
until we didn't.
We said we'd never forget…
and then we did."
– submitted by CTNL reader
Diane Romano
