I'm so glad to hear your father was alright, how terrifying. I've been thinking about the horrors all day and they are still as close as they were nine years ago.
I will never forget being 14 and in school and my teacher dropping her papers when she heard the news over a walkie-talkie. She started crying. They locked us up in the cafeteria and we just kept hearing scary words like 'terrorists' and 'war'. I felt guilty for the fact I wasn't in NYC and my family was safe at home. I remember a year before that I had gone to see Pearl Harbor in theaters and I remember asking my mom, "could that happen again in this country?" And she told me no.
Bruce Springsteen's album "The Rising" is all about feelings post 9/11. It's heavy to listen to, not background noise. I think he captured the way everybody felt; the firefighters, the victims and their families, children. I think every American should have to listen to it all the way through at least once.
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