It just seems trite to ask “what were you doing when you first became aware of the terrorist attacks on 9-11?”.
I clearly remember that I was in a new job assignment, frantically racing to a meeting that I had forgotten when someone told me a plane had hit the twin towers. At that stage of the game, it was thought to be a single engine plane by the media.
Little did we all know how wrong they were and how life-altering the terrorist attacks would be on our way of life. So much has been altered, it is almost impossible to enumerate the changes, from the obvious airport security, to how you get a drivers’ license, to the documentation you must have to rent a house or a car.
Nearly 3000 people died on 9-11. They were murdered. Just ordinary people going about their daily business. Then there have been those who died from the clean up, those killed in the wars that ensued, and those who suffered debilitating, life-altering injuries from those wars.
Our lives changed forever. We will never regain what we lost on that date. 9-11 will also be a date that lives in infamy. Post-9-11 seems to have no end. Perhaps more than even the attack on Pearl Harbor, 9-11 seems to have really been, in the words of Don Henley, “The End of the Innocence.”
