Today's Thread
"Smile On Your Brother"
"Smile On Your Brother"
Like many of you, my memories are vivid. Mark was at work that day. Tom and I were home. He was working on his home school lessons, I was on the computer creating future lessons. I had the TV on. Suddenly, Tom came running into the living room and turned up the volume. 2/
We sat together and watched the horror unfold in front of our eyes.
Suddenly, my phone rang. I was my cousin Jeanne from WI. Our cousin, David, was supposed to be flying that day, headed over seas for work. Jeanne wanted to know if I knew where Dave was flying from / to.
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Suddenly, my phone rang. I was my cousin Jeanne from WI. Our cousin, David, was supposed to be flying that day, headed over seas for work. Jeanne wanted to know if I knew where Dave was flying from / to.
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Frantic phone calls and facebook messages between family members followed, as we all tried to locate Dave. Turns out, he had cancelled his plans and was at his remote cabin. No phone, no internet. He didn't even know what was happening until the next day when he got home.
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We had a race the weekend after 9/11 in Topeka. We packed up left early, to make it into a mini vacation. We stayed off the interstate and enjoyed back country roads all the way down. Every small town we went through was decked out in flags.
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Every where we went, people had the need to connect to others. Getting gas the people at other pumps would greet each other. We'd eat in small town cafes and people at neighboring tables would strike up a conversation.
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We traveled a lot back then and never have I experienced the level of people being friendly and social as I did after 9/11. We were all 1. One nation grieving. One nation needing to love our neighbors. We had more in common than we did differences.
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I look back at that time, and my heart hurts thinking of how wounding that day was. The lives lost, and the people who continue to suffer because of that one ugly day.
My heart also warms as we joined together to lift each other out of those dark times.
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My heart also warms as we joined together to lift each other out of those dark times.
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I look at our nation now and I see so much hate and division. It seems that 20 years has been enough time to forget how important it was for a time after that dark day to be united, not divided.
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To love our neighbors with our hearts and souls. I wish we could get the love back, without having to go through another tragedy to remind us of how important we are to each other.
Sing with me!
~Skip
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Sing with me!
~Skip
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