Julie M Anderson

What major historical events do you remember?

I was going to the gym with my sister and as we were walking past the huge tv, the second tower was being stuck. It was so surreal, I thought it was a movie. Nothing real happens like that, right?

We didn’t work out.

I remember standing on the desk at my taekwondo school, trying desperately to call my dad in Michigan later that night, just to talk to him. All of the phone lines were busy. Me and so many other people were just trying to connect.

The date still makes me anxious. I needed to drop my boyfriend off at the airport next to the Pentagon for a flight out. It was four years ago now. It was September eleventh. I didn’t want to go anywhere near Arlington. Still on that day.

I haven’t been back to New York to see the scar of where the Twin Towers stood.

I don’t just remember 9-11, I was alive when the tragedy struck.

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