Please read with me these great lyrics about that sad September day 10 years ago today. God Bless America.
I still cannot bear to watch reruns of that awful day. Not to make this personal (but suppose it is personal for everyone who witnessed it) I was so physically and emotionally affected by the sight of that burning building and then the plane hitting the other tower and all I could think of and visualise was all those people in there. I was shopping in Sainsbury's at the time and they had a whole bank of big TVs, about twenty of them, all showing this same picture. It was overwhelming and grotesque and I wanted to just get down on my knees and cry out to God for those people. It was like I could hear their screams and their terror inside my heart. There was a crowd of people there with me, just standing, watching, mouths open and struck dumb and immobile by what they were seeing. Who'd have ever thought such a thing could be conceived in the mind of a man?
We were taken there (ground Zero) on a city tour of NY a few years ago. I felt as we were on a coach tour we were intruders and shouldn't it have been part of the tour. A young Welsh lady with us wanted to put some flowers on the fencing surrounding the site but was not allowed, how sad.
thanks for posting that song it with simple but very powerfull i am am now as tear streaked as i was on that day !
I remember it very clearly as we were due to fly out to California a few days after.. it was almost unreal watching it unfold.. To see the people jumping from the windows & then the buildings collapsing.. You felt you could feel the terror & hear the screams it was all so vivid.... We were on one of the first planes out of Heathrow to the USA after that.. It was a very eerie flight.. Not many people on it & when we touched down in the US everyone clapped & the Captain offered a prayer of thanks before he opened the doors.. People were cheering & clapping & crying as we walked out into arrivals, all very very emotional.. We had gone for 8 weeks to visit family & friends & for 2 weddings, all the time we were there I have to say I was impressed with their openness of emotions & the respect they held for all the emergency services... I felt proud to be English & went to several big church services out there.. I met a lady whose daughter had perished in the towers.. I felt very humble to be honest, none of us expect to bury our children, but for her it was not even to be that.... There was also allot of anger & bitterness at that time too... When we came home 8 weeks later the atmosphere & thoughts had changed as by that time they were bombing the mountains etc looking to get Bin Laden...!!! It was a cruel act that I hope will never be repeated in any way shape or form... Sadly this world is becoming a very very cruel place now & humanity has a finite time left here.. It would nice to live it peacefully.. 2,977 people lost their lives in those attacks
Thank you for posting that roders, very moving and thought provoking!! We were out walking our dogs when a fellow dog walker told us what had happened, I remember not really believing her and thinking she must be exaggerating!!! Val
Most of you know I am married to an American and I lived there for 20 years ... this is very close to my heart ... I can vividly remember when as I was packing to move to Portugal .. I love what roders has posted and in silence .. but I think the voice needs to be heard too ...
