I was just waking up that morning after working a double-shifting weekend as a nurse. Mondays were always like a lost day for me back then for working those long weekends. September 11, 2001, was a day that is another Day of Infamy in the history books just like Pearl Harbor had become. My memory is while sitting on the couch watching 'Good Morning America' and seeing those planes flying really low I was wondering why are they flying so low and then crash and smoke. I just stared at the screen as kids today watch their screens. Always remember.
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Locker Days
It's that time of year again. Those days of lockers that seemed to fail you one way or another. For me it never seems to fail when I had to ride the bus, and it was running late for that meant you will be running late, and that meant for some reason the darn locker would not open for you remembered your combination, nothing was stuck that stopped it from opening. The warning bell went off and you try a few more times maybe you went a tad too far in clicks, but the final bell rang, and you give it one good kick, and it opens. You practically had to run to homeroom before the classroom door shuts, and you are marked absent for no fault of your own. How many of you remember such things happen to you in those halcyon days of yore, come on be honest.
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
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For sure! We will never forget!❤️
I will never forget where I was too. The saddest day 😭🙏😢
Yes, we must never forget that day of true horror. I still find it hard to comprehend that such evil exists in our world.
Yes we should always remember. We shouldn't allow a moment in history to slip our memory. Especially when it can teach us something in the present. Nice reflective piece Mark. Well done for bringing back the mood of the time in the imagery of the planes flying low. 🤗❤️
Yeah, I'll never forget where I was when it happened. And I still won't watch the footage. Thanks for paying tribute, Mark.