9/11 Stories

Nydia

A Moment of Quiet Desperation…

Has it only be three weeks??? Did it really happen?? As life unfolds a little bit more since september 11, and we try to get back to normal, I feel more and more that we’re making up “normal” as we go along… Coming home from a weekend trip to Maryland, we took the route to the Lincoln Tunnel, and I could still not believe how our beloved skyline has been marred, changed forever. All my life, coming home from any long trip, the first view of our skyline was like a huge, twinkling welcome mat in the night sky, but Sunday the Empire State Building looked so lonely, and I felt a desperate sadness for my beautiful city, for each of us New Yorkers… This is still so hard, it’s still so unbelievable and I wish every day that it hadn’t happened…

Nydia
Jackson Hts, New York