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2002-03-07 - 3:47 p.m. -
stray thought about 9/11
don�t ask me why i�m thinking about this but�
the one thing that sticks out form those first few days
is something that happened on the first night.
i had been woken in the morning by a phone call (as a lot of people had).
that morning i went to work. almost everyone i work with was
watching the tv or listening to the radio. it was a day of
phone calls & e-mails checking up on friends & family.
word started coming in on who was safe, who was not.
at home, more calls, more checking, more news reports.
my 2 � year old son full of questions. i had no answers.
every station had news on it. even the comedy station had the BBC on.
you could feel the whole world holding it�s breath. around 11 that night i went outside for a smoke.
that is when what was happening hit me.
and it hit in a strange way.
all air traffic had been stopped throughout the US. the same for rail traffic.
most people were at home watching tv, getting the latest news.
sitting outside, it struck me just how quiet it was.
no planes overhead. no trains down the street. no noise from the highway.
it felt like the whole world had stopped.
for the first time in my life the only thing in the sky was stars.
i could hear myself breathing. i started to cry. for all the images from those first few days
that is the one moment that i will never forget.
that painful silence. a sky full of stars & space. my own breathing.
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�The important thing is not to stop questioning.�
-Albert Einstein
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