In Memorium: 11 Sep 2001 09:37:25 EDT
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I still remember like it was yesterday…when the sky turned black; Of shipmates and strangers, joined by one terrible act; and what was before – is forever changed… Remember…
09:37:25 Flt 77 strikes the Pentagon 39 friends, shipmates KIA in the Navy OPS Center 39 families – lives forever altered for them and for those of us who survived History pivots …and still today , there are no words…even 20 years later…
The sun has long since set – but in the darkened, borrowed office I notice little beyond the pale circle of light on the desk in front of me. Before me is list of names, some scratched out, many not. The hand that just hung up the phone is now cradling my head – throbbing…
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I still remember like it was yesterday…when the sky turned black; Of shipmates and strangers, joined by one terrible act; and what was before – is forever changed… Remember…
I remember, a sky so blue it burned your eyes to look up . . .and smoke that scarred your lungs; I remember shipmates . . . and a piece of notebook paper listing for whom the bell had tolled; We remember that for one brief moment it wasn’t New Yorkers, or Washingtonians, or businessmen…
“We claim this hallowed ground for peace and for healing. We claim it in affirmation of our strongest belief as a people: that every life is precious.” – Robert S. Gates, Sept 11, 2008 An unbelievable and memorable day – and those words hardly do justice. I was there for the re-dedication ceremony of the…