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By Meri Ulrich May 14, 2007 I was asleep when my phone rang early on the morning of September 11th, 2001. It was my daughter calling me from the Midwest to tell me to turn on my television set. I wasn't too happy having been awaked from a night that had been annoyingly restless, and I told her, "This better be worth my time". My daughter worked for a major airline at the time and I should have known from the panic in her voice that it was most definitely "worth my time" to do as she had suggested. I turned on CNN by rote as something told me that this was something major and I was used to watching CNN for all major breaking news coverage as far back as the first Gulf war days. I expected to see familiar faces but recognized no one. There was a brand new anchor named Aaron Brown walking down a bleak, smoke filled street and his voice was low and frightened and filled with disbelief. and I instantly sensed knew that something dreadful had happened. I could never have imagined how dreadful it would turn out to be. The sounds and sights of that morning will be forever burned into my brain and I will never forget what I saw as I sat in total disbelief. I had lived through the cold war era and experienced the fear that the Russians would blow us up but I never really believed that it would ever happen here in America. How could this be happening to my country, in a place that I had visited just the month before the devastation that I was watching? How could those beautiful towers be no more...I had walked thru them just a couple of weeks prior to that day. They were magnificent. Most of all, that day represented something that I never expected to see in my lifetime....the death of innocence for all of us no matter how young or old. To this day I, along with many others, live with the sights and sounds of that day. I remember the fear and the hopelessness and I prayed that my children and Grandchildren would not have to face this horrible nightmare ever again. Somehow, I believe that they will though; and that knowledge has changed the person who I am forever. The destruction reached far beyond those two towering buildings and into the very foundation of everything American. We knew that living within our sheltered shores was no longer an option and no longer a reality Everything changed....everyone changed and no one will ever be the same. ------------ Click Here for a list of other U-K articles by Meri Ulrich. Email: writers2@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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