World Trade Center Musings || Author's Note
by Jewls13
Authors note: Living in New York and having a friend with a military
ID, I got the oppurtunity to see the werckage of the WTC first-hand.
Over Thanksgiving break, my friend was in town and the night before she
left, we went to site. Because of her involvment in the armed forces,
(Lance Corpral US Marine Corps) we got to see what the public has just
be allowed to see, and much more. For me, it was important to be there.
My mother lost a friend there(in addition to hundreds of other programers
who she, being one herself, felt a kinship with), and I felt it. My friends
say that I am empathic-that I feel others' pain, but I don't know. All
I know is that I am extremly sensitive to stuff. Regardless, we both wanted
to be there because we wanted to know what she and other people that we
love were fighting for.
When we were there,
my friend started talking
to the people; workers, survivers, victems. I just sat dowm and started
writing. Nothing in my life had prepared me for what I felt and saw.
And I don't think that I will ever feel what I felt there ever again.
This is it. I haven't edited it mainly because I don't want to.
I want to keep the intact what I wrote in hopes that it can convey exactly
what I felt and I felt that editing it would cause much of it to be lost.
I didn't plan on posting this or even letting many people read it, but I
changed my mind. I'm not sure why. So they may suck, but it is what it is.
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