I still remember

[Allhallowsday]

There's very few times in my life I cared about other people.
This was the most memorable.

I did cry that day and again and again.  Alone.  I realized how much I loved this humanity for which I had so much contempt.  I was personally changed that day.  I cared.  I was determined to be a better person. 

[LilCerberus]

There's very few times in my life I cared about other people.
This was the most memorable.

I had relatives in McLean, VA at the time, which borders The Pentagon, & while for years, they had little to do with me, I had the urge to look up their number & call them....  Got the Answering machine...

I sat & watched the old boob tube with the sound turned down while listening to The Rush Limbaugh Show... There was a guest on that day, so myself & many other Americans were suddenly worried about "him"..... 

Then local talk show host Jim Jacobs was put on the air, who got into an awful lot of rambling, seemingly knowing less about the situation than everyone else in WRVA's broadcast area, and and after a while, got into some long & irritating tangent about how important it was for him to interrupt The Rush Limbaugh Show......

Back then, Rush's streaming service was free, but I had dial up, so my phone was unavailable for a couple hours...
Got more info there than from the tube or that blatherskite that cut him off...

Then the show was over....
Around Five, I heard from my Aunt, who said she was out at the time picking up her daughter from school, and that they lived on the opposite end of McLean, well away from The Pentagon....
Then she told me that my Uncle had been in New York that day, but was at the opposite end of town & didn't see or hear anything, & was on his way home by train.

Watching the nooz that evening, I found out The Richmond Times Dispatch had produced their first extra edition in fifty years, & I was really glad I Had the day off...................

[RCMerchant]

I saw people die. It was scary.