September Eleventh

September 11th, 2009 | Author: Shannon

9/11/ 2009

Eight years ago, I was living in Socorro, NM. Early one autumn morning, as my boyfriend and I lay in bed awaiting the motivation to get to school, a strange sound came over the airwaves of NPR. The emergency signal sound I usually associated with tests of some sort. This time, a news announcement followed with information regarding airplanes running into the world trade towers.

Shocked, I listened closely.

Later, the halls of the geology building of New Mexico Tech were buzzing with hypotheses of whether or not the buildings would calapse… and then they did.

I watched on the TV in the student union as they fell- over and over and over again and waited to hear from my relatives who worked in or near the towers.

I had a test- which I did terribly on (in fact as I think about it, that was last day I had any fun in graduate school).

After hearing from my parents and relatives, I settled in, knowing that my world would be a little different FOREVER. I had felt the same fear for my family as people all over the world feel daily. It was a foreign concept before then. Here we fear the stockmarket, gas prices, taxes, other corners of the world there is fear of life (or death).

My heart felt compassion goes out to everyone who suffered that day. May we work together for peace, freedom and an end to war, suffering, and fear.

God Bless the Whole World Wide.

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