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Monday, September 11, 2006
Five Years On: A 9/11 Meditation Since that shattering day, when I turned on the radio to hear a confused NPR studio announcer gently disputing with the reporter in the field… no it was just the one tower, and the field reporter insisting that no, it was both… both of them had collapsed, had fallen straight to the ground in the space of an hour and a half … Since that day, I have been let go from two jobs, my daughter served a tour in Kuwait and Iraq as a Marine, and come home to start college, I have written one book and nearly completed another, both my brothers married, and my parents’ home (since rebuilt with improvements) burnt to the ground in a massive Southern California fire. I have no doubt that many of the rest of us have also had a fairly eventful half-decade of living, which has helped to blur the outlines of the Towers. But forget? No, never; something like that can never be put out of mind and memory by those who experienced it, even at a remove. But it can be compartmentalized, just so you can go on and build some kind of satisfactory life, rebuild a city, win a war, make your garden grow. But the music in my mind when I see the videos of the fires, of the clouds of dust, of people falling, is always and forever Mozart’s’ “Requiem”, a mourning for what we lost, and the world that used to be, a world that is fading like the outline of the towers. Pictures of NYC 9/11 Ceremonies here "Sgt. Mom" is a freelance writer, and retired Air Force NCO, who blogs at www.sgtstryker.com who lives in San Antonio with five cats, two dogs and a daughter, and can off the top of her head explain the deriviation of the term "free lance". Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Sgt. Mom at 11:56 AM |
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