9/11 Response | weavetheweb

I have revisited my 9/11/2001 piece each year and shared it with friends and family. I have just now decided that it would be interesting to share the responses as the years go by. I only wish I had done it sooner... Nancy Ware

9/11 Responses

From 9/11/2017

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Thanks for sharing this again. I'm not sure America was ever innocent. Our innocence as a country has been disguised from the beginning in a collective belief in our manifest destiny as God's best on earth. We are not unique in this but we have wrought great destruction in its name especially when we dropped the bombs on Japan. Disasters do bring out the best in people, I believe everywhere. Carol Tarlow

Thank you for sharing Nancy. I still cannot believe it's been 16 years. I had just arrived in the US (Florida) for college about three weeks before. My friend who I would be sharing an apartment with, met me at the gate (the last time anyone was able to do that for me again). I was barely two weeks into school, and I woke up, turned on the news and saw that the first plane had hit the tower. I literally remember every detail of that day so many years later...Nicole Jardim

Thank you for writing this. My friend, Mike Gann, died in the second tower and when I multiply his life and the pain surrounding his loss by thousands, my brain rejects the collective sum of sorrow. Abigail Hickman