Another Tuesday Six Years Later
Above Photo By My Husband, R.J. Formica
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his year the weather is rainy, far from the idylic weather that morning six years ago, Tuesday, September 11th 2001 .
Well another tuesday falls on September 11th this year 2007 and I am watching Oprah. I know I said I don’t watch Oprah, but she is doing a special on September 11th, and no one else seems to really remember just how much the day that changed the name of the World Trade Center forever to Ground Zero changed our world forever.
I checked the T.V. listings, no specials, save for PBS, normal programing. Most of the kids I teach are too young to remember that day clearly. We had a moment of silence, not the 5 moments we observed last year to remember the times the planes struck buildings, planes crashed into the field and exact time when each building fell.
Attendance at the Ground Zero site memorial was smaller than any other year. I guess people have moved on.
I feel profoundly sad. I don’t know if there is another emotion that would be appropriate for this day. I always thought everyone would always remember, but this year, the sixth anniversary, it is apparent to me that they do not, they have forgotten. No judgement here, just an observation.
Two of my older classes blogged about it. Some of them remembered the day. We talked, and shared our memories. It was the only time I felt right all day.
I do remember that day, it was a day of no answers, but so many questions, many still left unanswered. It was like no other day I had every lived through. It changed my world, and I know my world will never be the same.
Six Years ago on that other tuesday I watched the 2nd tower go down from the waterfront of Staten Island. It just fell and was no more. A building I had once worked in as a clerical worker, that I shopped in the lower level of at least once a month. I remember going to a bank that had a piano and player, there when I was sixteen with my first boyfriend to cash checks from my first job.
I know the world is different. I know it, no matter if any else does.
Before 9/11 New York, the United States, my world was one of innocence. Six years ago on another tuesday in September the World Trade Center became ground zero and we lost more than we realize or remember.
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