I remember it all as if it was yesterday.
It was such an intensely sad yet overwhelmingly patriotic time. We were glued to the news day after day and all we could and do was pray and send love and light to the first responders, pray for miracles and survivors, their family and friends. New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC were in our hearts and on our minds.
I remember all the flags. Everyone found their flags and the US flag flew at every house and on every car--all of us all over the world. We just could not believe our eyes orvour ears. Disbelief was greater than fear. We were absolutely stunned watching the World Trade Center and the twin towers fall with immense horror as total disbelief enfolded minute by minute over the news. It took days, weeks, even months to piece events together and then when some explanations came in, years and years to attempt to understand any of it in any way.
We became one with one thought, one purpose, and one unified emotion.
If we could only regain all of the good that poured out between unified families, communities, states, and our nation today that we felt then. If we could feel all of that outpouring of love in thoughts, words, and deeds as we all sought to put thoughts into patriotic action. Our news every year if a replay of that fateful day. A day of memory to always remember and never forget.
Quilters patriotically quilted in legions united even more after 9-11 somehow. For every patriotic holiday or day of remembrance. I can remembe making and donating a lap quilt a week after Hurricane Katrina, after Rita, after the Oklahoma bombing of the Federal Building. Suddenly after September 11, 2001 we were truly The United States og America.
We sent them to Veterans hospitals and offices,, to care homes and individuals to people we knew and to total strangers.. Making flags and table runners and hotpads and mug wraps as a way of unifying hearts with hands and cities, States, and countries.
Oh my heart. Those were such deeply American deeply patriotic and deeply one Nation together under one God for All times. If only we all truly remembered, truly held on to that unity and unification of minds, bodies and spirits.
Date: September 11, 2001, 5:46 AM PDT
Perpetrators: Osama bin Laden; Ayman al-Zawahiri; Al-Qaeda; (see also: responsibility and hijackers)
Number of deaths: 2,996
Location: World Trade Center, New York, Manhattan, Shanksville, Stonycreek Township, More
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Michele Bilyeu Creates With Heart and Hands as she shares her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting... from my heart and with my hands
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