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Posted September 11, 2008
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Catlettsburg, Kentucky
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Remembering 9/11 |
I just sat at my car and cried.
I left the house around 8:35am, September 11, 2008. I had to stop by the Post Office in our small Kentucky town of Catlettsburg (pop.2000) before going to work in nearby Ashland. Like the previous six years, I spent the morning thinking of those I associate with that incredible day. I thought of JB Miller, the radio dj that announced to our office that "Our nation is under attack!" I thought of Kym York-Blake, the co-worker that fell to her knees with me beside my desk to pray for our nation. And I think of Firefighter and Chaplain Jeff Johnson who taught me so much about what it was really like at ground zero. I thought of how the only services honoring these events were miles away and how alone I felt in remembering. I pulled in to the Post Office parking lot at 8:46. JB, still on the radio, began playing a fantastic version of America The Beautiful, I noticed the flag at half staff, and just sat in my car and cried. I cried for all those hurting today, all those that hurt that day, and for the changes that day made in our lives. Then the song ended. I dried my eyes, reapplied my make up and headed in the post office where business was brisk, as usual.
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