Comments on: Feeling patriotic

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:02:01 +0000

Wow, that's a nice extension of your comment above. Now I feel better about prodding you. It also appears that this writing bug is a family gene. That's a great comment Noelle.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:53:37 +0000

@Sean – Done (and then some).

By: Noelle

Noelle — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:39:13 +0000

I was reminded of that fateful day when I glanced at my phone yesterday. September 11th will never be forgotten. Sometimes we get caught up in our everyday lives and forget what happened then. We forget what is happening now, in Iraq, in our own country, and elsewhere. There is poverty and crime and racism and more. It is so important to think of others and their struggles, to remind ourselves of how good we have it and do what we can to help others.

I was at the site of former WTC a few months ago. There were notes and pictures from children of the people killed that day. It was so difficult to see those, but it was a powerful reminder of what happened and the number of people that lost their lives. None of those people knew what would happen that day. They went to work like any other day. We should be thankful for what we have and for each and every day.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:57:10 +0000

@Ed – Hey, so I know I busted your balls over on Jason’s blog for copy and paste of your comments… but, after I read this again I wonder why you don’t just post this there anyway? I mean, I could have posted my stuff as a comment on his post, but I did my own. I think what you have here is perfect as its own entity in The Ed Zone and most of your readers aren’t ever going to come here or to BBn to read it. It may not be complete for what you want, but like you said, you can have more next year. A day late isn’t leaving you a dollar short.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:09:27 +0000

Well put. I was going to draft my 911 post yesterday as well (guess we three Bloggers were all on the same wavelength) but then the day escaped me.

I’ll put it all down at some point (guess I have to wait until next year) but I’ll say this – that is one of those days where I remember every minute in vibrant detail. I mean everything. I remember every damned thing I did that morning – and I remember the exact moment I waltzed through our company’s Call Center and caught, out of the corner of my eye, the 2nd plane hitting the tower and just stopping dead in my tracks. Before it was merely an ‘accident’. Now it was unquestionably an act of war.

I also remember wanting to beat the living pulp out of this meathead who stood alongside me in a crowd of employees watching the towers burn on live TV. When the first tower began to collapse he turned and started laughing. That disconnect in him with what was transpiring a mere 200+ miles away and was irrevocably shattering lives across the globe – that fact that we were witnessing mass murder before our very eyes – made me, for the briefest of moments, want to disconnect every piece of that guy from the rest of him. Then, I realized, I’m better than that.

What I remember most though was how beautiful that day began. I mean, it was a blinding blue September morn, a slight Fall crisp was in the air, and what started out as a storybook morning quickly morphed into a grim fairy tale with no apparent end in sight.

Anyway, more in my own Blog some day, but I wanted to salute your reflection.

By: Feeling unpatriotic :: OB1og

Feeling unpatriotic :: OB1og — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:10:56 +0000

[...] don’t worry, this is directed towards the New England Patriots. In fact, my patriotic feelings were originally a tangent within this post, but I busted them out on their own, where they belong. [...]