9/11 Memorial

 

Before I found out about the peace and quite of Costa Rica, Guanacaste, and started this very well deserved retirement, seven years ago, I was getting ready to go to work and the kids were running around the house and although the TV was on, I was not able to hear it, I was not paying attention to the screen anyways yet for some reason at look up at the TV: The World Trade Center buildings were on fire and I had only been there 7 seven days ago doing business.

 

The image on the TV just unbelievable, I though for a minute that it was maybe one of those TV movies when I realized the news logo was at the bottom of the screen. The 9/11 events marked us all very deep and it was only the beginning. Between 15 minutes both towers were hit:

8.46 - Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

9.03 - Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center.

By 9:30 am that morning people in desperation were throwing themselves out of the windows of what was left of the Twin Towers at that moment. The desperation in the voices of the families, the horror on the images on TV was just indescribable and it marked us all forever.

 

I had to make a stop and ponder about that moment today and pay respects to the families of the people who died in this terrible attack. Here in Costa Rica lands all those awful feelings don’t seem to be so close to me anymore, but I know that some people still feel it like it is happening right now.

 

Costa Rica newspapers did dedicated a few words on their issues today, nothing too particular, but I guess you had to live it to actually know how it feels, I don’t blame them. Life is much better now and we can sit and rest. The attacks of 9/11 will be part of our everyday life as North Americans and 9/11 itself will always mark a different way of living forever.