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Never Forget
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 12:14AM 
Our eldest was still a newlywed on the morning of September 11, 2001. Second daughter was away at college. The two youngest were at school. I was at home.
A friend called me to say, "You need to be watching the news."
TG was in Washington, D.C. He was approaching the White House, due for a meeting in an office building across the street, when the terrorist-controlled plane struck the Pentagon. He saw the smoke. He managed to get to his hotel and stood in line to use a phone (we didn't have mobiles yet) to call me. By that night he was home.
I thank God for protecting him and the rest of our family.
I pray today for the families of those who died.
I thank God that I am an American.
God bless President Bush. God bless our troops. God bless America.
Reader Comments (15)
Where's the coffee cups? I go away for a day...
I'll never forget that day. Etched permanently, forever.
@ Cheryl ... yeah girl, now we're havin' fits in the grits.
Indeed a sad day. May we never forget what our fellow Americans suffered.
You're awesome Jenny Weber.
@ WD ... I think not, but I thank you for your kindness.
It's hard to think about anything else today!
We were living in France, and I'll always remember the kindnesses of our neighbors on that day and the days after. I'm glad I wrote about it in my book, because I don't want to forget one detail, in honor of those who died.
My brother in law was flying for a pilot for Northwest Airlines that morning, and we were so happy when we found out he was okay.
He's now in Iraq flying again. We hope he'll be home before Christmas.
Anyway, thanks for finding me! I'm happy to meet another Carolina girl!
Becky
Becky, I would like to read your book. You remind me of Kristin Espinasse ... as you can see from my sidebar, I'm a big fan of hers. We love France in our family as my brother-in-law is French.
How awful it must have been to have wondered -- even for a split second -- about your brother-in-law's safety on 9/11. I do hope that he and many others will be home for Christmas.
I try to imagine what all those aboard the planes suffered and of course I can't, but I think about it often and I remember them with tenderness and pride.
Amen, and God bless our troops for fighting for the freedom we all value so highly.
.....are those grits, or popcorn?? Haha...(can you tell I've never seen grits in my life, if that's what that is?)
Angi ... girl them are grits in their raw form. I can see I shall have to educate you ... popcorn? Have you been in the moonshine, LOLOLOL ... ? Just kidding, luvvy. God Bless America.
That was an intense day, wasn't it. Burned in to the brain of every American, I'm sure. I wrote a little more about it over at my place - couldn't at first.
I told on another blog about the time our Southern high school band were in Syracuse, NY after traveling straight through on a Greyhound bus, and they opened a restaurant early one morning just for us. We all were squirrely as could be by then, and all started ordering grits and things like that just to be smart alecks. They had no idea what we were talking about of course. We knew they wouldn't, but acted really put out and we almost got thrown out, deservedly so.
Tracie, I noticed you didn't write anything except "Memorial" and that was touching in and of itself. I'll try to get back over later to read the rest.
I imagine a grit in Syracuse would die of loneliness. Trying to get a bowl of grits out of a yankee first thing in the morning would be a daunting task. At any rate grits certainly can be a point of contention, and rightly so.
At our house the argument is, incredibly, about HOW to eat them ... that's because as anyone who knows anything knows, the only way is piping hot, with plenty of salt and butter and maybe a fried egg thrown in for good measure ... but my husband (an Ohioan) encountered his first grit at the age of 22 when he went to Charleston SC to attend The Citadel, and someone there told him to douse them in sugar and milk ... which in my opinion is a travesty.
I wasn't aware grits had a "raw" form...! Haha...what a Yankee I am.
Still looks like buttery popcorn to me. ;-)
@ Angi ... well, ya know, uncooked ... but hey, it's all corn. Corn works in many ways! Now you've got me wanting buttery popcorn.
Grits? I'll be a suck-egg mule ;-)
As for 9/11...God rest those lost, God be with those left behind, and God bless our police, firefighters, EMS personnel, and most of all, our US Military.
I'll remember to the end of my life.
Skunkfeathers! Long time no see! Amen to all you said ... if we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it.
Grits? I thought it was popcorn! LOL!