11/09/01 in remembrance
 

I think there might be more threads about this date somewhere but I thought in starting one in our bipolar forum...

I wanted to say, that every year I remember this day with lots of.... hum... cant find the right word... or maybe I dont know it in english... lots of.... nostalgy... ? dont know the word, but maybe you understand my feeling... it was such a sad day... I remember I was 18 and anorexic at that time and... I remember I couldnt believe it... seriously ?? How can somebody do something like that ?? SAD !!! terrible world in we live in...

I admire all the people that worked there that day, and the follow days, trying to help...

I admire and keep in my thoughts and prayers those that survived but that maybe lost somebody...

I know the world is different since that day... in many aspects...

Im not an american, but I have always loved your country, your people, your ideas, etc, so for me, that day was so sad and a big offense to peace and liberty...

Here, in my humble home, Im sending a prayer for all those (probably the entire world) who were affect by these attacks...

I cant watch much tv about it, because I cant stop crying and my heart breaks... but I know many children need now therapy due to this and, I can only keep them in my heart...

Peace and love to everyone.

:grouphug:

Hi, Majo,

You are such a wonderful person. :)

M

Aww. Thank you Blue. You are a loving person,and so thoughtful. Thank you. BF((((((((((((Hugs)))))))))))) :hug::hug::grouphug::hug::hug:

i remember
 

I remember....

i was at work. it was afternoon here. my first reaction was disbelief. then i managed to verify on a US news site. i realized something was up just by how hard it was to connect to US news sites. then it was real. at first...

i felt unreal, numb........ then overwhelmed, devastated, angry all at once.

i emailed a friend in Atlanta who flies a lot. he was safe at work too. verified other folks, asking about relatives etc....

in the days that followed....

the news loop-played full-screen images of the towers going dowwwnnnn... my stomach would go dowwwwwwwn each time. i was exceptionally watching the news during that time - i usually don't, and finally i had to give it up for sanity's sake. they all said the same thing over and over again anyway.

i remember on the way to work, two guys from the middle east sitting across from me, speaking in their language. One pointed to the free mini-newspaper in their lap, which featured a huge picture of the towers in flame... they both burst into fits of what seemed like diabolical laughter. i was supersensitized and maybe they were talking about the weather and laughing normally. but it didn't seem that way to me. and i wanted to eat their heads.

then it occurred to me they could be packed and wired, and... that my bus would blow up. :( but it would have been too small a target.

i felt isolated.

i was in a culture that largely did not understand. i could not talk to anyone... they said awful things, the news said awful things... the politicians said AWFUL things... i couldn't hear it any more. the national pastime was this sickening debate about "whether it was the US' fault." ugh.

i felt fearful.

despite the rotten majority of attitudes around me were (solidarity? what's that :(), i was in an allied country that had received threats for second-round of attacks.

i had to travel areas that would have been ideal targets and there, i was terrified. i remember having to forcibly move my mind onto other thoughts, very difficult ... but i wanted to prevent those terrorists at least from having added victory via my own mind.

i remember living in the shadow of this for an undetermined amount of time thereafter. as did, i think, in one way or another, most of the western world.

:( :grouphug: :(

~ waves ~

waves

Thank you for your comforting words. Also the vivid memories of where
you were. I have to hope also though. That even though.

It looked like they looked like they were laughing at us. Maybe they
were laughing to keep from crying.

even though it might not have seemed so.


I remember exactly were I was. You will hear at least from us in
Indiana it was ISTEP+ week, that means our school children were
being given a test. To see how our children were doing, in keeping
up with grades and things.

I was scribing or whatever for students, or a student. By giving sections
of the test. I was helping were I could it was the 1st of 3 days that
year.


Tomorrow is my day of memory really. Its the day I fell of my back porch
10 years ago. Wow, I then had surgery on the 24th of September I think
was the date, to put a plate in my elbow. I then started my job on
October 1st that year.

Donna:grouphug:

about ascii art
 

TIP: when you send out this truck, which is an example of ASCII art...

make sure that the font setting is to a non proportional font (all letters are same size) otherwise it will show up slanted.

thank you so much Bizi, this is CUTE!!!! :hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

Thanks, BlueMajo, for starting this thread. Yes, that was an awful day, and I remember it like it was yesterday. At the time, I was working in Princeton, NJ, and there are quite a few peopl who live in that area and commute to NY to work. I was working in my son's Cingular store, and, for days afterward, people would come in and say things like, "I lost my phone charger, it was in my office in the WTC", and so on. The local train station had many cars in the parking lot that their owners never came to get, as they had passed away on the 11th.

That day affected all of us, and my DH and I were very proud and happy to meet one of the executives of the rebuilding committee, Bill Baroni. He used to be our Senator, but was appointed to head up the re-building commission. He spoke at a luncheon back in June that we were invited to. We were invited because the two police officers who pulled us out of our burning home were being awarded metals of valor, and they wanted us to be there. It was a very moving meeting and luncheon. As a matter of fact, it was only a few days after that when my DH had his 'psychotic break', for lack of a better word, and spent the next 3 months in the hospital. He had been unusually emotional and talkative at that luncheon, and I was a bit taken aback. Anyhow, Mr Baroni also handed out lovely booklets about the WTC and the rebuiling effort, including an artist's rendering of what the Final Memorial and the whole site would look like.

Thank you for your lovely comments. We are proud of our country!

Hugs, Jacquie

No TV on Sunday
 

Hi,

I did a great job of watching no TV at all on Sunday. I am so happy about that :). Saturday evening (yesterday) I had the TV on for 30 mins and saw how the programs were going so I decided to take a mini vacation.
I accidentally caught a few pictures on Yahoo but otherwise stayed away from stuff on the web too.

There is a full moon in 4 hours. I am going to step outside to see it before I go to bed.

Have a good week everybody.

M

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I watched some footage of families early this week, some more updated show, but I could not watch too much.
Then our local TV station was evacuated and worked from a mobile truck and local news out let. But they had no access to national broadcasting, or commercials. Talk about commercial free!!!
56 hrs straight of flood coverage.

Glad the day is put to rest after hearing there had been some thought of new threats. But, it is now the 12th and we are okay....
Blessings to all and thanks so much
Majo