9/11 A Day I Will Never Forget

I will never forget this day as long as I live. I was working in Atlanta at a major firm as a Senior Systems Engineer when it happened. I know you can remember what you were doing that day as well.
I was on the phone with a client about a database I was building for them when the lights flickered and the phones went dead. I didn't think anything of it until the phones did not return nor was I able to get a signal on my cell phone at all.
Someone was in the breakroom watching the televisions that were always and they began yelling for us all to leave our cubicles and offices and come see that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane.
I was dazed then before you know it someone was crying and soneone else was repeating over and over "I don't beieive this, I don't believe this."
People in our offices were getting word that there was attack planned for Atlanta and the the airport was shut down. It was pandemonium you couldn'g get on the highway it was gridlocked and all I wanted to do was get to my children. I couldn't leave. I wanted to call my brother Frank who worked in Tower two. OMG OMG OMG
I couldn't get through there were still no phones.
I was able to get a signal on my cell phone. I called and called and called and called his home nothing. For days there was nothing. But today was the worse because I didn't know where he was. I was a mess. I called my sister in Milwaukee and she and her husband had tried to call him they couldn't get through. It was a sickening waiting game.
There was nothing I could do but sit there in my office holdign back tears of nervousness and fear for my two children that I couldn't call nor get to and for my brother that I could not communicate with.
That night as my children and I sat and watched the new the tears finally came Imani who was only five at the time asked me what was wrong and I told her and she asked "Mommy why are they mad at us?"
I had no answers so I sat in front of the TV in my condo in Atlanta numb and scared while they slept with no worries no fears or understanding as to what was going on right now.
My brother is ok thank God we were finally able to reach him. The company he worked for had encouraged people that all was ok and to go back to work. He didn't he got up and left that day and he said that as the towers were coming down, he refused to look back.
I am glad he didn't.
It made me realise that tomorrow is not promised. We need to honor one another and not just lay our flowers and flags for people that we love and honor after they are dead.
So today I want to take this time to offer a prayer for the men and women who lost their lives that day and for the families that remain behind still picking up pieces.
I was never the same after that day.
Offer up your silence today for the innocent people from 95 countries who died that day.
Never forget.



Till Next Time

Mamma