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Implanted 9/11 Revisited - Forever Brave

11 September, 2011 18:14 CST6CDT

Ten years ago today I woke up to a pot of coffee, turned on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR/NPR/PRI/BBC) when the programming was quickly interrupted with a foggy description of an unknown event in New York.  I was still a bit sluggish, though I soon tuned in to my CRT TV on ABC and started to watch the events occur across the country.

I believe like many others, I was a bit mesmerized by the information I was trying to take in at first.  It was not until the second plane hit the Twin Towers that I became awakened with panic.

I was attending college at this time.  I was taking my general classes for the program I was to enter.  I do remembering still at the time when I needed to catch the bus to school that the awakened panic of its type had still not let my body organize all of the incoming information.  After 3 hours of watching the news, I headed out the door to class - I turned back, headed back up to my apartment after only a few meters, probably thinking along the lines of "what the fuck"; or so it would be appropriate.

It was not until mid afternoon that I realized that I had been standing straight up, not sitting down once, while the world was still reacting to the Pentagon attack, World Trade Center, and the attempted attack of a 3rd plane that was downed before its suggested destination.  What strikes me today is as I watch memorials and archived reports of the events that occurred on September 11th, 2001 is I can replay every minute of that morning, every picture beamed to the tube, every speculation, and most importantly all the forever brave souls that I had been contemplating for safety and sanity.

For all the forever brave souls directly or indirectly impacted by 9/11 (includes any decent human being in our entirety), you all will always be in my heart.

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Main Entry:   spew   Pronunciation:   \ˈspyü\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spīwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein   First Known Use: before 12th century

intransitive verb
  1. VOMIT
  2. to come forth in a flood or gush
  3. to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE
transitive verb
  1. VOMIT
  2. to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity <a volcano spewing out ash> —often used with out —spew·er noun
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