9/11 Memories

I can't say tears were flowing but I felt awfully choked up thanks to the television show commemorating 9/11 shown on its 10th anniversary last night. It hit hard because it made me remember 9/11 and the panic that surrounded the city on that day. I was not near ground zero but working on 26th street and the buses were paacked and they shut down the subways as a security precaution so I walked 50+ blocks home and was unable to reach my live-in boyfriend Wayne, which made me worry about his whereabouts and safety. Since he works in Manhattan commercial real estate I worried that he had been showing space to clients in the twin towers when the planes hit. But when I finally got to our Upper East side apartment he came home and I was extremely relieved. My family tried to reach me via phone but it was impossible with all the tied up phone lines trying to reach the city. But unlike thousands, we were safe and out of harm's way. The memories that would make a normal woman choke up and shed tears did not do the same to me despite all the emotion there.