Five years - so short, yet so long

[eleneariel]

I'm sure there will be a rash of 9/11 posts tomorrow. I don't mean to get mine in ahead of time, but it's only an hour or so away and I'll probably forget if I wait until morning.

All I want to say is that I can still taste the fear I felt five years ago. At times I was so sick with it that physically I could barely breathe. I think I thought the world was ending.

And we came through it. I came through it.

It still feels odd to think that I may life the rest of my life in a country at war. 

God bless America, and God bless our military.

Comments

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

~God bless America, and God bless our military.~

Amen!

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

It is weird...sometimes the feelings of those days immediately following the attacks just hit you, and it becomes so real again.

So hard to believe it's been five years.

[radiantlove.livejournal.com]

It's odd, how for so much of the time, you can simply block those thoughts from your mind, and at times, they come- so real that the initial fear returns...

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

I'm thankful and amazed that we haven't had another big attack on our nation.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed too. I know there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes with our security in preventing attacks (I truly believe there have been many close calls that were thwarted), but it's such a massive thing to protect a whole country from such an amazing array of possible attacks - I'm surprised we haven't had at least one.