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9-11 is a tough day every year.

September 11th, 2008 | by admin |

For the last 7 years, this date has always been one of the worst to get through for me. I’m sure everyone has their memories of 9-11-01 and for me it reminds me of those friends that were lost.

I was at a shithole of a company working with it came across the news that a plane had it the first tower, the president of the company came out and asked if it was a joke. My cell started ringing like crazy as I have a lot of friends in the .gov and .mil sectors and they were asking where I was at.

I turned on a TV while listening to my boss bitch at me to get back to work and saw the second plane hit. I then called my wife and told her to go get the kids from school and wait for me. I tried to leave work but was told that if I didn’t get back to my office then I was fired. Well needless to say, I was unemployed after that. I lost a lot of friends that day and don’t think I slept for 5 days as I was glued to the TV.

Normally each year I put up a link that pulls down this page on all the sites that I normally run but didn’t do it this year. There’s enough pages with memorials out there right now.

As I sit here today at work, I wish I had taken it off as it’s very hard to concentrate on my job and remember everything that I normally do each day. I’ve tried to stream the live feeds of the memorials but either the sites are overloaded or my office internet connection is just too slow, my guess is the office T1 is just too slow as well as the sites are overloaded with people wanting to do the same thing as I did.

So tonight I’m going to skip my daughter’s school open house as we know who the teacher is and everything that normally happens and I’m going to head to town and see if they have a memorial service going. I know that Lake Orion is having one at 7pm tonight but there’s really not a good place to get some good pictures. Oxford has a nice park where this would happen at and the lighting would be perfect for me to shoot this special day.

With all that said, I’m going to head down for a quick smoke break and collect my thoughts. I’m sure people have their own way of dealing with today and this is mine.