My Personal Memory of September 11, 2001

On September 11, 2011, I awoke to a phone call from my sister. She was crying and told me to turn on the television. I sat and watched in tears as our country was attacked. I called my children, my family and friends while I worried about my husband who was driving a gasoline tanker on the freeways and streets of Southern California. I felt hopeless, I couldn't think, all I could do was watch in terror as the planes hit the towers, the pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania not knowing how close it was to my family living there. I sat down at my computer and these are my thoughts that just seemed to tumble from my fingertips onto my computer screen.






Attack On America                    Feelings of Yvonne McAdams Peramaki    September 11, 2001

 I didn’t see the explosion,
 I couldn’t hear the loud boom,
 I was clear across the country,
 In a place I thought I would always be safe,
 Here in my own home,
 Sitting in my living room.

How could this have happened?
 Brought our world to a halt,
 As people run for cover
 Refuge for their lives being sought.
 They have closed down our whole country,
 Who could have been so mean?
 And on every television station,
 Devastation is all that is seen.
 Words can not express enough
The great sorrow that we feel
 For those who lost their lives
 In those hijacked airplanes
 And those buildings made of steel.

 How do I explain this?
Should I let them know my fears?
 What do we tell our children?
 As we all sit and watch in tears.
 I guess we can only tell them
We will try to keep them safe
And try to teach them how to love,
 And to say a prayer to God
 For those who lost their lives
 And are now with him above.

 What were they thinking?
 As they hijacked those planes high in the air?
 As long as they got their point across,
 I guess they just really didn’t care.
Did they care about the grief?
 Or the lives that would be lost?
 Was their satisfaction with what they’d done,
 Worth the human lives it cost.

Now 10 years later, as America and the World remembers and mourns, please take a few minutes from your busy life to say a prayer for the heroes of Flight 93, those that lost their lives in New York and at the Pentagon in the planes and on the ground. Say a prayer for all of the courageous men and woman who were first responders and for the brave men and women in our armed forces, police departments, fire departments and homeland security that are still on the job trying to keep our country safe.

GOD BLESS AMERICA