REMEMBER A DAY

"Where were you on 9/11/01?"  I was at work, in my head.. What I mean by in my head is I hated my job (who really does like theirs?) and I left my job whenever possible through my imagination, my thinking and thought of a story I had in my head.. This was long before I was ever on the internet and probably a good thing, the stories I was concocting were so out there... But in the case of this day I had a war game going on.. So weird to have that going on.  I remember the previous days (I worked a three and two schedule, three on two off)  and the Sunday they ran the show "On The Beach" on Showtime and I got part one on Sunday afternoon and wanted part two the following day.. it started at six or so and dad asked me if I would go with him to help change the tire on moms car at McD..   I got back just as the show was coming on.. Why is this important??  It isn't, it's just what I remember about the Monday before 9/11..  What about that day stands out most to me??  The lack of credible information..  By 8 that morning two people had clocked in with total opposite stories.. A plane had hit the world trade center, small single engine cessna type... I thought so what... Then someone said it was  a jet, a small jet like a privet jet and again I thought so what.. Then things got going as all sorts of reports started coming in and mom shows up and she has a radio and turns it on.. That is when the reality set in.. Two planes, full sized airliners loaded with fuel were crashed into each tower.. And the pentagon and the Sears tower???    They wanted full effect, and were wanting mass casualties..  When I heard the towers collapsed I thought the top fell off like the Images at Twilight album by Saga.. That is the vision I had.. Then my imagination ran wild.. What if the buildings fell into each other??  Could that have happened??  I had to go see for myself and went on an early lunch break and went to my older brothers house thinking he might be home watching this.. He wasn't home but luckily I was able to get in his house and turn on the tv.. The twin towers were both gone by then..  U   F   B  ...  I couldn't believe it and the rest of my day was spent in disbelief.. Spent the next few hours just thinking about that days events and when I got off by one that afternoon I went pretty much straight home (a first for me) and got in and switched on the tv.. The coverage was relentless, every ten minutes the same images.. The second plane hitting the tower.. Followed by the first then the second tower collapsing.. The pentagon.. The sears tower?? The Sears tower wasn't hit.. It was evacuated but wasn't hit...   And the people who took that flight down in a Pennsylvania field.. Had the rest of the flights known what happened was possible I like to think they would have done the same thing..  But this has never happened before..   That evening the news was to be 24/7 for the next few days and Wednesday  I would be off so I woke up early to watch as the sun came up on what was now known as ground zero.. New York...   And from that day forward for at least a little while everyone was  a New Yorker, we all watched as New York got off the mat and carried on, everything was  a little more special the remainder of that year..  New Years Eve..  All of it...  For a little while we were one with New York...   One Nation with New York...

Badge Henry