Sunday, September 11, 2022

9/11

Twenty-one years after the fact, and I can’t see a cloudless sky without thinking of September 11, 2001. I remember that day and those that followed as having intensely blue and cloudless skies.

comments: 4

Joe DiBiase said...

I remember that cloudless sky as well. I had just dropped off my older (crying) daughter for her first day of preschool and was headed into the office in Boston. She's out of graduate school by a couple of years now and has started her career, but I'll never forget calling the office to alert people of what I'd heard on the radio on my drive. We had 5 people that left Boston's Logan Airport that morning for a business trip to NY. Fortunately, they weren't on AA11 and were all safe, though stranded in, I believe, Brooklyn.

Michael Leddy said...

I remember being on the phone with a friend (here in Illinois) who said, “I gotta go — a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.” I assumed it was an accident, as when a small plane hit the Empire State Building decades ago. And then I put on the news and began to understand what had happened.

Fresca said...

Blue, cloudless... and quiet.

Michael Leddy said...

Right — no planes.