Today is the 8th anniversary of a day I wish fervently had never happened. But I feel it's important to never forget the attack that changed our world just as surely as the world was changed on December 7th, 1941.

I happen to live about 45 miles from the crash site in Somerset County, PA, but have not yet gone. I also live about 50 miles or so from Pittsburgh airport, so I could have seen that plane fly over and not thought much about it, because we see planes all the time.

So even though this post has nothing to do with knitting, I just wanted to note today and take a moment to remember.

I agree. I was teaching in Peru that day and at first I didn't believe it. Since we worked in an international school I asked my second graders if anyone's parents were in NY at the time. None were but still all the others were there.

I agree it has change the world and we all have to deal with that but I to feel it should be remember. We can all send thoughts and prayers out to those in need while we knit.

I was temping at a local company when I found out about it.

Then my mother told me I lost a cousin in it. He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald.

My mother's friend's son said that he would have been in it, but he was on a flight to Syracuse, NY that morning.

Wah!

Shari

I came home from work at the battered women's shelter to find it on the radio. I was stunned and horrified.

Back then I worked second shift so I woke up to the news of the first plane hitting the first tower. At that time no one was aware it was deliberate. Then it all went to heck.

I was getting ready for the day when my son told me a plane had crashed into the WTC. I thought he had misunderstood a news story, so I came out to the family room to check what had *really* happended. We don't receive TV, so we listened to the radio and looked online. Stunning.

I heard later from a lawyer friend who works in Manhattan. She told of taking off her pumps and running over the bridge with crowds of other people to get off the island. She said she'd never wear spike-heels again.

Just got back fro Washington DC. Saw the 911 memorial for the pentagon victims. Amazingly perfect. I never expected such a simple composition could show explosion & destruction and hope at the same time.