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September 11, 2011 – Ten Years Later

September 11, 2011 By Elizabeth

September 11, 2001 started out as a beautiful day here in Lansing, Michigan. Chris went to work, and I loaded the boys up in the car to take them to our regular Tuesday MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meeting, which started at 9:00 am at a church in East Lansing. I had the radio on, and at 8:45 I had just exited the highway and was turning onto the road towards the church when I heard the song suddenly stop and Dan Rather say he had breaking news. It was 8:46 am and the first plane had just hit the World Trade Center. I remember thinking those poor people in that plane, I hope they didn't realize what was happening, it must have been some kind of horrific plane malfunction or pilot error or something. We got to the meeting. A few people were saying they had heard the story on the radio too, about a plane in New York, but we all just thought it was a terrible accident. No one had any idea what was really going on, so we just had our meeting as usual. Driving home around 11:45 … [Read more...]

The World Spins Madly On

September 11, 2008 By Elizabeth

Today is September 11th. It's been seven years since the attacks on our country. In that time, we have seen the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, learned to take our shoes off at airports and put our three ounces of shampoo into quart size ziploc baggies, planted memorial gardens and built monuments, and at Ground Zero, the Freedom Tower project is underway, you can even watch a 24 hour live feed Webcam at the site, here- http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/groundzero/. I started blogging in September, 2005. I didn't write a September 11th post that year. September, 2006, I signed up for the 2,996 Bloggers Project. Each of us were assigned the name of someone who lost their life on September 11th. My post is called I Remember William R. Johnston. My September 11, 2007 post was about a piece of artwork my son created in June, 2006, the assignment was to create a haiku about his favorite season, with an illustration to go with it. He chose Fall. This was his … [Read more...]