Remembering 7 years ago today

[dansim6]

I am just remembering my friends who died and survived seven years ago today.  Sometimes it feels as if it was yesterday.  I was still living back home in connecticut when that day came and three months into my first real world job.  I work in healthcare and we had to respond with emergency readiness and my state was shut down.  That was the longest and hard working day of my life so far.  Depending on land lines because our cell phones were not working, waiting to hear if our friends and families survived and where were they, were they trapped in new york , could they make it back to connecticut.  hugging and crying as we worked and watched. steping outside to silence where no airplanes flew above and the smell of smoke carried through the air.  many thank of just new york city but the painful breathe of death spread to area states like PA, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Mass, Connecticut and Rhode Island.  The air around us and that filled our hearts was not right and made us mentally and physically sick.  but the great memory is how we responded with help.  many were heroes that day and the following weeks,  Within two hours of the incident, many of our EMTs, Nurses, and Physicians were in NYC and people from the community were lining up to give blood, blankets, food, money...etc.
People were filling in the churches and supermarkets.  I was trapped at work helping to regulate the influx of heart attacks, attempted suicides, keep beds free for survivors if needed, the heroes asking questions about where to go to give....... I wanted to be home curled on a couch with my family, scared and holding on but i couldn't not until bedtime.

Gratitude in my heart for that day and where we are now.  I miss you to my friends.  I am proud of you to those survivors I know who fought to get out.