SEPTEMBER 10 — If numbness is a feeling, then that’s all I felt at the start of the morning. I was already late, and was ready to run to my class when Patricia called. I will always remember her words till this day, “Turn on the TV”.
But as I kept watching, I saw another plane come into visual. I thought maybe the plane had diverted to take a closer look. Maybe the pilot of UA175 was radioing to rescuers and coordinating a response. What happened next was beyond words. To see before my eyes, a plane loaded with women, children, men . crash into South Tower was beyond belief. I fell on my knees praying and sobbing at the same time. So many lives — on the planes in the buildings this can’t be happening.
But as AA77 and UA93 hit The Pentagon and Shanksville, I begin to realise that it wasn’t over. The planes came down around us, creating a triangle almost just kilometres from Pennsylvania State University. Our very own Bermuda Triangle, except that we were now in the middle. It was then that I realised that maybe just maybe, today, my life would disappear too in this Bermuda Triangle.
They say football brings the world together. But that day, 9/11, it was the common experience of trauma and death that brought the world closer. A trauma that haunted me and others for months . It is strange to say this — that good came out of evil, but it did. People came together. On campus, we came together. We lit candles together. We cried together. We worked out efforts to reach out to our diverse communities.
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