In Memory of 9/11/2001

I�ll never forget 9/11/2001. I was residing at the time in the Bronx when my father called me at around 9:00am that morning, telling me: �Turn on the TV! Something�s happened at Capitol Hill!� So I did. To my surprise, I saw that the World Trade Center�s North Tower had been destroyed, and the South Tower was about to go down, too. (It did about 35 minutes later.) Every station had word of this for days on end.

This event was and still is significant in history, though, because, if memory serves me right, four (hijacked?) airplanes were on a mission about which I know very little. According to websites such as Salon and this link, Two of them slammed into WTC, and the third struck the Pentagon. Another dive bombed a Pennsylvania forest. Some 3,016 people were killed behind all this.

The planes that slammed into WTC did so 18 minutes apart from each other. At around 8:40am that morning, one plane struck the North Tower. And then, a similar crash occurred. And then, New York�s beloved World Trade Center was history.

Everything was put to a complete standstill: New York City�s usually business, her railroad schedules, TV show production, Broadway plays, then-scheduled specials and events, the world, our hearts-you name it. Even I was terrified to the bone. Mr. Prez George W. Bush, who was in Florida at the time, wasn�t even around after this struck the nation blind. On 9/11/2002, the terrorist threat level went up to Code Orange, meaning terror attacks are likely. Nothing happened even after the War in Iraq that tore us apart in March 2003.

Musicians and other people all over the world joined hands and paid tribute to this great loss. An �All Star Tribute� collaboration of Marvin Gaye�s What�s Going On was commercially released. Some time after that, Paul Simon, Celine Dion, and similar vocalists performed on a tribute special. In 2002, ex-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani presented yet another 9/11 tribute on MTV�s VMA ceremony, but this time a woman whose name I didn�t get down performed it with images of 9/11 behind her.

This all moved me so much that one day, I will publish a song commemorating who vanished on 9/11/2001 myself. And in short I disagree with Rev. Jerry Falwell, who said and I cite Carol Wade and Carole Tavris� Psychology dated 2002 that America deserved this because God didn�t like her �godless, secular ways.�

Dear Mr. Falwell, why don�t you, in the words of rapper Ice Cube, �check yo self before you wriggety-wreck yourself?�

Now, as of 9/11/2003, what is left to be said about all this? Seems that nobody can talk about it enough compared to the millions of similar explosions that take place every day and nevertheless end up being just a memory. 9/11/01 is a day likely, if worthy enough, of being a national holiday. END.