<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by canterlope:
Steve and I were just riding back to the barn after finishing with our last set of horses when Jamie, our adopted son who was also our barn manager walked out to meet us. He had a really strange look on his face and I thought something had happened to one of the horses. All he said was, "some b@stard just flew a plane into the World Trade Center."
I used to work on the hundred and first floor of One World Trade and still knew a lot of people there. I immediately jumped off my horse, ran into the house, and turned on the news. They were showing live coverage of the first tower burning. A short while later, the second tower was hit and then the Pentagon. My cousin works at the Pentagon, so by this time I was about ready to lose it. Thankfully he was at a meeting in Boston that day and was unharmed.
In the days that followed, I found out that five of my friends had been killed when the towers fell. I also found out that the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania hit three miles from my niece's house. To this day, she still has nightmares about it. It was the smell of the crash that she remembers the most. For a couple of weeks afterwards, the odor of burnt metal and bodies hung in the air.
For me, the hardest part of that day was the affect it had on Jamie. It was almost as if he felt that he had been personally attacked. His personality totally changed. He went from a loving, carefree, trusting person to a withdrawn, suspicious individual who trusted no one. A year later he took his own life.
While I know that there were a lot of other things that affected his decision to end his life, I can't help but feel that September 11th was the straw that broke his camel's back. I truly believe he lost his innocence and hope that day. So, for me, 9-11 will always be linked with his death. Tomorrow I will light some candles and say a prayer for all of the victims of that heinous attack, Jamie included.
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Oh Canterlope, I am so sorry about Jamie! 9/11 shattered the innocence of so many people that day. The repercussions of that day will be felt by many for so many more years to come.
Two years later I can close my eyes and still clearly see the aweful sight of those two buildings in rubble and that smell in the air......... I will never forget that look of complete devestation and loss etched on the face of one of the FDNY firefighter's I met, and the deep pain in his eyes. Their just aren't words to describe the look on his face....................
I will add Jamie's name to my prayers tomorrow as I light my own memorial candles for all that suffered.
"Member of the Western clique"
All gave some...And some gave all...God bless the USA
Steve and I were just riding back to the barn after finishing with our last set of horses when Jamie, our adopted son who was also our barn manager walked out to meet us. He had a really strange look on his face and I thought something had happened to one of the horses. All he said was, "some b@stard just flew a plane into the World Trade Center."
I used to work on the hundred and first floor of One World Trade and still knew a lot of people there. I immediately jumped off my horse, ran into the house, and turned on the news. They were showing live coverage of the first tower burning. A short while later, the second tower was hit and then the Pentagon. My cousin works at the Pentagon, so by this time I was about ready to lose it. Thankfully he was at a meeting in Boston that day and was unharmed.
In the days that followed, I found out that five of my friends had been killed when the towers fell. I also found out that the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania hit three miles from my niece's house. To this day, she still has nightmares about it. It was the smell of the crash that she remembers the most. For a couple of weeks afterwards, the odor of burnt metal and bodies hung in the air.
For me, the hardest part of that day was the affect it had on Jamie. It was almost as if he felt that he had been personally attacked. His personality totally changed. He went from a loving, carefree, trusting person to a withdrawn, suspicious individual who trusted no one. A year later he took his own life.
While I know that there were a lot of other things that affected his decision to end his life, I can't help but feel that September 11th was the straw that broke his camel's back. I truly believe he lost his innocence and hope that day. So, for me, 9-11 will always be linked with his death. Tomorrow I will light some candles and say a prayer for all of the victims of that heinous attack, Jamie included.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They say cats have nine lives. They would settle for one good one. Adopt a cat (or dog) today.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh Canterlope, I am so sorry about Jamie! 9/11 shattered the innocence of so many people that day. The repercussions of that day will be felt by many for so many more years to come.
Two years later I can close my eyes and still clearly see the aweful sight of those two buildings in rubble and that smell in the air......... I will never forget that look of complete devestation and loss etched on the face of one of the FDNY firefighter's I met, and the deep pain in his eyes. Their just aren't words to describe the look on his face....................
I will add Jamie's name to my prayers tomorrow as I light my own memorial candles for all that suffered.
"Member of the Western clique"
All gave some...And some gave all...God bless the USA
We felt so guilty, thinking if only we'd put them in before dark, he would still be alive. Jesse searched for him for days, completely lost without his brother. Very soon we adopted two more kittens, who proceeded to irritate Jesse to no end, 
but still helped fill the void. About two years later, that same road claimed Jesse in broad daylight, in the same spot where Jamie died. 
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