9/11: How I Lost the Country I Used to Know and the Person I Used To Be

[babsbunny]

http://www.alternet.org/story/152361/9_11%3A_how_i_lost_the_country_i_used_to_know_and_the_person_i_used_to_be?akid=7548.38044.TdW717&rd=1&t=2

On September 11, 2001, I was lucky. I didn't lose anybody close to me -- except my country and the person I had been before.

September 11, 2011

Author's note: The following piece is a memoir. It is an accounting of my memory of the experiences; actual events may have, and likely did, differ in small ways. Likewise, quotes from others are my memory of what was said, not the precise words that were spoken.

He walked through the front door, a thick roll of blueprints tucked under his arm, his eyes brimming with the kind of excitement a six-year-old displays opening his first box of Legos.

"Know what this is, honey?" he asked.

I looked up from the television, where he found me each night, attention focused on one news show or another.

"The World Trade Center!"

[rosesaylavee]

1. That was very well written.

Thank you for posting.

[Dawson Leery]

2. k/r

[peacetalksforall]

3. Thanks. Good writing. Good story. I was fascinated.