This week leading up to the date there have been many stories in the news about 9/11. I could say it is hard to believe it has been 20 years ago, but I know time can pass quickly and memories recede. People often say things like ‘where were you when’ some historic event happened. When the event is traumatic, part of me wants to push it away. That is how it is with 9/11. I can tell you at the time I was living in Southern California and that made me feel insulated because it happened across the country from me. I know it would have been much worse if I lived in New York City or Washington, D.C. My memory is of the morning it happened. I was home on sick leave. I was going through a personal crisis with the loss of sight in my right eye. It was due to an inflammation of the optic nerve and after several weeks my eyesight did return. But at the beginning it was very stressful. I’m not sure if we had the news on or my husband came in and told me to turn it on. We saw the video of the plane flying into the first tower. Then the second plan hit the second tower. I remember how unreal it looked, like a scene from a movie. Later news reports told us of the attack in Washington and the passengers who helped crash Flight 93 so the terrorists couldn’t crash the plane into the Capitol. I followed the news and read the accounts of the people who lost family members or were badly injured. Life changed here with the heightened vigilance about more terrorist attacks. We were drawn into wars. It was a dark time.
Stream of Consciousness Saturday, #SOCS, is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt word for today is ‘where.’
Notes Tied On The Sagebrush 
Obviously, I was on the other side of the Atlantic, but we were all horrified by the awful news. I hope you are very happy in your new home. x
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I remember how many other countries voiced their support. I am happy here. Thank you, Anna. xo
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i will never forget the moment. on the playground with my very young class.
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That would be hard. My kids were much older. My husband had just dropped my daughter off at High School.
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It was hard for all ages in different ways – everyone was touched by it in some way
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I was at work. One of my employee’s teenage kids called her and told her and we thought she was just a confused teenager, because what she was saying couldn’t be true. This was before we had phones with internet or access to outside news at work.
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It would be hard to believe. We didn’t know what was happening at first.
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In England people bwere just as shocked, I was on holiday in Spain, it was like our holiday stopped.
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It shows how people do care about what happens to others in the world. I do remember the expressions from Britain and other countries.
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We are all one race really 💜
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❤
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I remember being at home and watching the horror unfold. I hope the inflammation or the world will subside and heal as your eye did and that our eyesight as a species will get better.
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I hope for that too. It seems it will take longer than we hoped.
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It does seem to be taking longer than it should. But we will keep hoping.
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I was very shocked. My elder son who was home from school on a half term called me to come and see. I thought it was a movie he was watching but it clearly wasn’t. I was about to set off to Hospice as a volunteer for the evening shift and I could tell by the expressions of fellow drivers on the road that they were deeply shocked. O what an awful time that was.
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I just watched a film about it last night. It was so shocking at the time I think I blocked out a lot of it. It started us down a dark path.
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