If you haven’t seen this video, you must. Both moving and chilling, it made me cry. Thanks to Patti for the link.

Five years today seems like a lifetime ago. So much has transpired both in the world and in my own life. I’m sure you could say the same.

That day started out like any other. We had just bought our house and my husband, who was self-employed, was home that day. Like every other morning, PBS dominated the television as my one year old daughter, newly walking, toddled around the house.

Around noon, the phone rang and my best friend, who happened to be in town at her mother’s house, said “Are you watching TV?” and I laughed. “Does Reading Rainbow count?”

“Turn on CNN”

“Okay, hang on. Whoa! What IS that?”

“It’s the World Trade Center”

We would soon find out that a plane crashed into the Pentagon and another in a field in Pennsylvania.

The rest of the day is a blur. The only thing I know for sure is that the TV never went off that day. We were simultaneously horrified and mesmerized by the billowing black smoke and the images of those buildings falling, over and over.

In the days and weeks to come, I cried an immeasurable amount of tears. Each story was sadder than the one before. There seemed to be no end to them.

Five years later, we find ourselves mired in a nonsensical “war” in Iraq. Oil prices are higher than they’ve every been. Iran now has nuclear weapons. And the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks is still free. *sigh*

My heart continues to go out to all who have lost someone because of what happened on this day five years ago, directly or indirectly and to those who suffer compromised health as a result of being rescue responders. There simply are not adequate words to express how sorry I am.

Peace be with us all.