MY COUNTRY LIFE

Well, almost everything that could have gone wrong with the 2,996 Project did.  The man who initiated it all had his computer crash, three days ago, with all the programs he needed to orchastrate the Project.  Then he got sick.

And today, his server bandwidth got too much traffic and they kicked him off.

Well, it was a valiant effort, and I salute him.  I'm personally glad I took part, and got to know one individual lost at the WTC, just a little bit.

I have to tell you, when the towers were burning and crumbling and the victims were perishing five years ago, I didn't watch.  I just couldn't.

This year, I finally watched some of the footage, and it was still difficult, even this far removed.

It would be one thing to realize your loved one had died unexpectedly... but how would it feel knowing he died scared and suffering, unable to breathe, perhaps crushed or burning?

I have plenty of things to enter in my journal, but right now I'm just catching my breath from the horror I've seen in the past twenty-four hours, watching films of things I couldn't bear to watch five years ago.

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• #10 Comment from csandhollow 
  9/12/06 11:41 PM | Permalink

  I could not watch it again
  Just thinking of it makes me cry.
• #9 Comment from bnanajm 
  9/12/06 5:25 AM | Permalink

  September 11 was one of the few times I saw the human side of my former boss.  We spent several very tense hours in the office before he left to retrieve his daughter at her day school.  Because of my close proximity to the Pentagon and Dulles Airport, I chose to stay in the office until nearly 3:00.  Since Wall Street was at a stand still I didn't work for the rest of the week.  I read and watched it all unfolding, time after time, on TV.  I'll never forget those days.
  
  God bless us all.
• #8 Comment from trishaham 
  9/12/06 2:33 AM | Permalink

  I know, It Hurts.
  
  Tia
  
  http://journals.aol.com/trishaham/TiasTales/
• #7 Comment from tendernoggle 
  9/12/06 12:21 AM | Permalink

  Seems like we all have had to put some distance in our lives to be able to watch those news reels....
  Hope you and Cliff are well Mosie..Take care,
  love ya,
  carlene
• #6 Comment from sugarsweet056 
  9/11/06 11:16 PM | Permalink

  I did my 9/11 trilogy & honor of my 2,996 victim over the weekend...today I didn't post & probably won't tomorrow either. Spending this time to reflect & pray for all those fallen...their families...the survivors...& America.
  Sugar