I Heart NY (more than ever).
As we mark the distance of 5 years there will be many solemn, reflective posts on 9/11. I thought I'd use mine to answer a question. It matters not where you live as we were all affected by the tragedies. But, being a New Yorker, I get a lot of questions from people all over about that day. Most recently it's this one: Have people in NY forgotten?
It's impossible to forget how naive we felt that morning being certain the first plane crash was an accident, how anxious we felt that afternoon when buildings and planes continued to crash around us and how angry we became in the days after as our emergency rooms stood ready for someone, anyone, to be rescued. We so desperately needed for there to be survivors.
How to forget how eerily quiet the city that never sleeps was for days, maybe weeks, thereafter? Or the vacant look on everyone's face? How to forget being at a complete loss as to how to ask one of my best friends if her husband, who worked in the North Tower, was alive? How does one ask those words? And when I could get through and her husband answered, my relief was so overwhelming it felt as if I'd taken my first breath since the towers fell. We so desperately needed relief.
Most of all, how to forget the wait. Those long, interminable months with our city striving to get back to "normal". Among New Yorkers, that was our BIG question--when will life be like it used to? We so desperately needed for life to feel normal again.
We've not forgotten. But I can understand why it can appear to some that we have. It's just that while we're honoring the past we do the only thing we NY'ers know to do: focus on the future. It helps to give us the survival stories we never got, offers a little relief and makes life feel, well, normal again.
Well put CK. I know that NYers have not forgotten. And we do have a tendancy to look forward. But I always like to look back as well. There is a time for everything. Next week will be a time for reflection. A time to think about our loved ones and those who suffered directly.
I love NY too. It's still my hometown. And something tells me that next week, it will be everyone's hometown. NY (and DC, and everone who lost someone) will be in our hearts and minds.
Posted by: David Armano | Saturday, September 09, 2006 at 02:46 PM
Great post CK. NYC will especially be in our thoughts tomorrow and this week, and the fact that New York continues to move forward gives the rest of the country the inspiration to follow our largest city's lead.
Posted by: Mack Collier | Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 08:59 PM
"And when I could get through and her husband answered, my relief was so overwhelming it felt as if I'd taken my first breath since the towers fell."
When I read that, I actually took a breath of relief as if I was feeling what you felt at that moment. Powerful post. Thanks.
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