9/11

9/11 ..... Remembering where I was fourteen years ago when I first heard the news. The conference room at work for our pre-work supervisor meeting. I hadn't turned on the television that morning while getting ready for work. And I didn't have a radio in the car that I was driving at the time. The news was a shock. The work hours spent in a walking around daze, just wanting to get home and see what was happening in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. And what was happening in my world. I doubt that eight hours ever passed by as slowly as on that day. All we had was some basic preliminary information. No idea how big or wide spread the attack was.

Looking back, I wonder why they couldn't have put work on hold for at least a few hours so we could go home and see what was going on. Or provide us with some type of updates. Could we also be targets, 3000 miles away on the opposite coast? We didn't know but I'm sure the thought was on many minds.

A photo that I took four years ago on the local 9/11 rememberance at Riverfront Park in Salem. The park was full of these flags that listed the names of all the people lost in the attacks.