The Terror that Was September 11th, 2001
Memories can be strange things which we understandably repress or reduce to selective memory when the conscious thought is too disturbing to dwell on.
For many, thoughts of the events of September 11th, 2001 are, 8 1/2 years later, still too emotional and horrifying to be allowed regular admission to our consciousness.
Yet, they must not be relegated to distant memory lest by doing so we again let down our guard, either individually or collectively, and invite a repetition of that day.
We were 600 miles away from Ground Zero on 9/11, a very safe distance except for the facts our grown kids were in the New York City area and our son was working on 58th Street, less than 4 short miles away and close enough to witness the surrealistic collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
Some wounds never heal, surreal or not.
No American has forgotten the horrific, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1539)
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