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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
I wish I could stop watching footage and 9/11 programming, but every year I do, and it breaks my heart.
Me too. Every year I watch the footage and programming and sob. Every year. But I think it's good to remember it. No matter how heartbreaking. I honestly believe the slogan that 9/11 adopted of "We will never forget."
And moreso, I don't want to. You know?
Yes, I totally get you. I cry every time. I read that more than 900 9/11 responders have died since 9/11 from cancer, suicide, or lung issues.
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Post by glassofsyrah on Sept 10, 2013 23:54:32 GMT -5
I lived on 3rd Ave. and 14th St. on 9/11. We watched the towers fall from our bedroom window. Every year the memories are completely surreal to me. It was the scariest day of my life. I am so thankful to everyone who gave service to protect us that day and beyond.
Oh God, that's a totally separate issue for me (though no less important at all). I have read that so, so many have been affected and have lost their lives because of the after-effects of that fateful day. Responders that breathed in all that dust and ash while helping people.. volunteers that helped pull people from the debris.. helpers just trying to comfort those affected..
The long-lasting devastation from that day? So, so many people still recovering. Or attempting to recover.
That is what I mean, one of the programs I watched yesterday talked about all of the lives that were lost that day, but people are still being affected by it. It's awful.
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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
I lived on 3rd Ave. and 14th St. on 9/11. We watched the towers fall from our bedroom window. Every year the memories are completely surreal to me. It was the scariest day of my life. I am so thankful to everyone who gave service to protect us that day and beyond.
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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
This day sucks. Every year it somehow sneaks up on me. Every. year. On one hand I feel like I try to prepare for it, but well, I never really do. I just find myself wanting to crawl into bed and not get up until after it's all over. The most difficult part for me is how public it all is (duh, of course) - I suppose it's just that I've never really had a chance to fully heal. I'm everyone's (that I know in rl) connection to it, if that makes any sense. And it's completely understandable that everyone was marked by this tragedy, whether they knew someone who lost their life that day or not. It's just been really hard for me to find the balance between public and personal mourning. I'm reluctant to bring it up at all in real life - much easier on the internets and all that. But I lost two very close family members that day and it still feels like a bad dream. Probably because the scope of it all is so immense; every where I turn at this time of year it's 9/11 this and 9/11 that and it's very hard to juxtapose that with the very personal loss my family experienced.
Please know that I am in no way trying to make anyone feel badly for anything they need to do to commemorate/memorialize this day, we all mourn in our own way and while my loss was personal, everyone experienced a great loss that day. Everyone.
I'll probably regret posting this in the morning - I don't know if I've ever been this candid with my feelings surrounding this anniversary.
*please note I have been drinking wine tonight, so if I'm not the most coherent, I apologize
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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
A family friend is very, very ill due to his work at Ground Zero. It's awful to think of the continued affects on the health of people who just tried to help today.
I would like to say a special MISS you to my husbands friend who died on flight 11 from Boston.
Sloane, I love you, please don't take this personally... but this is the kind of thing that people would post on FB that makes my eye twitch because it feels like AWing to me.
1.) If you miss him, why tell everyone else? 2.) Why not just say "My husband and I lost a friend 12 years ago today on flight 11 and we really miss him." 3.)You said your husband's friend, not your friend, which would generally lead me to believe you and he weren't that close. Maybe I'm wrong, just my impression.
Again, I'm not trying to pick on you, I know you had a crazy day yesterday and all, just sharing how it possibly comes across to others.
every year my local radio station replays a montage of them from that morning (they stayed on the air until 5PM), and its about 10 minutes long set to Sarah McLachlan's "I will Remember You". And EVERY YEAR it makes me lose it. Just trying to hold it together.
It reminded me of this from the AJC's political artist:
I would like to say a special MISS you to my husbands friend who died on flight 11 from Boston.
Sloane, I love you, please don't take this personally... but this is the kind of thing that people would post on FB that makes my eye twitch because it feels like AWing to me.
1.) If you miss him, why tell everyone else? 2.) Why not just say "My husband and I lost a friend 12 years ago today on flight 11 and we really miss him." 3.)You said your husband's friend, not your friend, which would generally lead me to believe you and he weren't that close. Maybe I'm wrong, just my impression.
Again, I'm not trying to pick on you, I know you had a crazy day yesterday and all, just sharing how it possibly comes across to others.
No offense taken. I can assure you I don't post anything on facebook. I was friends with her as well but I met her through my husband. Point taken about it. Thanks