Category: Personal

I just had a sick feeling come over me. I have a friend who I love a lot that lives in New York City. She kind of disappeared a few weeks ago. When I say disappeared, I mean I tried to call her and her number was disconnected, and I haven’t gotten an e-mail from her in a while. If my memory serves me correctly, she worked somewhere near the World Trade Centers. But the last we talked, she was getting a job out of the city. I e-mailed her at the last address I had for her but haven’t heard anything back yet. I pray to God she’s ok.

You know I’ve never cried over anything I’ve seen on the news before, but when I watched the World Trade Center buildings collapse I felt like busting out into tears.

I have a brother who works in D.C. I panicked for what seemed like hours until I heard from my parents that he was ok.

My wife went to the store and I didn’t know about it. I must have left about 15 messages on the answering machine at home.

Both my dad, who is 72, and my mother-in-law, who is 63, both said the same thing. That this was Pearl Harbor all over again.

I live nowhere near NY or D.C. but I still can’t help feeling nervous. I’m at work right now, probably risking my job to do this, but I think it’s necessary. Here in Charlotte, NC, they’re evacuating the First Union/Wachovia building and most of downtown. I wish they would let us go. I want to be with my family. More later.

In the 32 years that I’ve been alive, there have been some holy shit moments. The Challenger explosion. The World Trade Center bombing. The Oklahoma City bombing. Columbine. And now this. Luckily, I have no family in New York, so I’ve been spared as far as I know.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims. More commentary later.