It's hard to believe that it has been 14 years.
Where were you on that day?
Where were you on that day?
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...I still get nauseous when I see images...the hurt hasn't faded....and I had no personal connection to anyone in any of the places where lives were lost, other than I am an American citizen and part of the national family...which is certainly enough to keep the grief hidden, but not gone....
We spent that morning and part of the afternoon trying to locate my boss's stepdaughter who was working in the WTC. She managed to get out and took a ferry to NJ, but didn't have her cell phone with her. (She later had to go through therapy because of seeing people jumping from the towers and hearing them land close to her.) I also contacted our local hospital that morning, which was designated to receive overflow patients, in order to get a blood drive going... but I later got a call that I didn't need to make it an emergency matter because there were no survivors....I still get nauseous when I see images...the hurt hasn't faded....and I had no personal connection to anyone in any of the places where lives were lost, other than I am an American citizen and part of the national family...which is certainly enough to keep the grief hidden, but not gone....