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w22dheartlivie
Posted - 09/07/2011 : 12:54:35 One day this week, a Facebook friend asked a question, which was "Five days away from 9/11 and Entertainment Tonight is already showing clips from a tribute set to air later in the week. These few previews were gutwrenching. What will it be like in 5 days? I may have to leave the TV turned off on Sunday. Do you remember where you were?" For myself, I remember quite clearly. I awakened from a dream - of people marching off a cliff like lemmings. It was the exact same dream I had when they discovered the mass suicides in Jonestown. over 23 years earlier. It was a disturbing dream 23 years ago, and it still is prominent in my mind. Funny how that manifested in my subconscious as my representative of horrible tragedy. When I woke that morning, and was able to process what was on the television, I called my next door neighbor, Connie Cash. Connie grew up practically in the shadow of WTC and could see it from her yard in New Jersey. We spent quite a long time on the phone that morning and factually, we were watching together when the plane hit the second tower. Stunned beyond belief, we recalled our last trips to NYC and going up to the top of the towers. It was a horrible and ultimately overwhelming turn of events. I called my aunt in Millville and at first she didn't believe me until she turned on the news. I called my friend Jeff and discovered he had been sent home from work due to the risk to malls, etc. Everyone I talked to that day was overwhelmed. Later that morning, after all the airports had been closed we were in the backyard when we heard a plane flying. Stumped by the flight, we checked to ensure airports were still grounded, then was reminded that Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton went full on military. I KNEW that, but just didn't register that this was a routine flyby. Totally a freeze moment. Turned out that Wright Patterson was sending up recon planes so we shouldn't freak out. It was a horrible day, one that seemed to go on forever as the list of atrocities got longer and longer. It's a day I'll always remember. I'll return to New York once the Trade Center is done, at least for one farewell to it and the city I love. You can't say goodbye without being there to say it.**
**My thanks to my friend, the late Connie Cash, Jeff Hormel, Jeff Marsh, my aunt, the late Georganna Kelley, and anyone else I may have forgotten.
