Tragedy struck hard
Today- 9/11/06. Today, brings the Five year aniversary of a tragic day that nor I or anyone in this country can forget. My racketball teacher this morning before instructing said that his only request of the day is that we keep in mind this country, our freedoms and "just how damn good we have it".
Do you remember where you were?
Five years ago I was sleeping on the floor of the down stairs family room at my parents house. I was 18. I had just got back into Provo a few weeks earlier from Oregon. It was early in the morning (before noon), when I was woke up by the phone ringing. I answered it in my - do you know what time it is and why are you waking me up- voice. My bestfriend Kai was calling me and sounded sartled on the phone "Turn on the TV!" I wasn't going to play his little game and watch some dumb comercial or sitcom that he thought was retarded. My reply came from pure annoyance and tiredness "No, why should I? Do you know what time it is?" "Debi, turn the TV on the world trade center was hit with a plane" and then the dumbest thing I could have ever said came from my mouth "And this has to do with me how???". Finally he lost all patients and told me to get my mom on the phone. I then realized that maybe this was important and turned the TV on. After a moment of watching the news I said to Kai "Wo! The world Trade Center was hit with a plane" His reply to that was a mear "Duh! I told you!" Kai and I sat on the phone discussing the situation and then we both watched in shock as another plane had crashed into the second building. We hung the phone up a bit after that and I was glued to the TV screen until I had to go to work early in the afternoon.
The rest of that day was filled with a sorrowful silence. Everyone seemed quiet, to themselves, yet in a deep greatfulness.
It was tragic.
I remember that day. I will always remember that day.
posted by Debi Lynn @ 6:46 PM
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I hate tickets. Thats what was running through my head as I woke up that morning. I was getting ready for a court appearance and I was not in a good mood. Well As I was in the shower finishing up I heard Dee bellow something about the tv and how I needed to watch it. Well I was rushed for time, I needed to get to the court house so as I was putting on my shoes I sat in awe as I saw the WTC just standing there with smoke spewing out and at that moment I was mad. I had these thoughts of wanting to nuke the whole lot of them. Even to this day I want to castrate that Bin Laden guy. With all that said and done it was off to court. The judge was very simpathic and made things as smoth as possible. I only had to be there so I could make my plea and set up my next visit so I could show my proof of not being guilty. The whole charge was later droped when an arraignment was made and the DA just gave me driving without license present instead of driving on a suppended licese. The whole thing was caused by a computer malfunction... Anyways Sept 11th sucked, going to court sucked paying $35 dollars instead of $100.00 I would say priceless, but obviously its $35.00
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