Posted by Raphael on Sep 11, 2011 in My Business Adventures | 0 comments

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since September 11th, 2001.

I hadn’t blogged or kept any record of my experiences back then…but if I had, I clearly would have had difficulty expressing my thoughts on that day.

All I remember was waking up early that day getting ready for work and then having my mom call and ask me to turn on the TV. “There’s a plane that hit a building in New York” she said.

I turned on the TV and it was all over the news. It didn’t become “real” until that first tower dropped, and then it was the only time in my life that I actually felt my knees buckle a little bit under me. Imagining at that very moment I was standing there watching TV, thousands of folks were getting crushed under rubble was mind numbing.

Once in high school, my friends rented “Faces of Death” which demonstrated video footage of executions and suicides. It was banned at the time for being too gruesome. But here this scene of the Word Trade Centers coming down and seeing people jump off the top of the building made Faces of Death seem so mild in comparison.

Anyway, on this 10th anniversary of that occasion, I’ll find my own little moment of silence for the folks who lost their lives that day and for all the military who’ve continued to lose their lives all these years since.

The world will never be perfect, but I’ll still keep hope it won’t be this shitty all the time.