According to a friend who would know these things, 47,000 people worked at the WTC and didn’t die. About 26,000 worked at the Pentagon. Every year on this day, we remember and mourn those who were killed, at least we should, and think of the family members left behind – without a spouse, parent, sibling, partner, friend, co-worker.
But the ones who lived through September 11, 2001 – what about them, eleven years later? How have they coped? How do they reconcile the fact that they were spared from death while others around them perished? Many of them struggle, each day, eleven years later.
There can be tremendous feelings of guilt associated with surviving what kills others. Men and women experience it after a war. Some of my classmates at Providence College experienced it after a terrible fire just before Christmas 1977 killed ten young women.
So today, please remember the nearly 3,000 people who died. And don’t forget the ones who lived, the ones who just try to get through today, and every day, hoping to find the reason. I wish them peace.
Martha Reynolds Writes 
I wish them peace too.
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Thanks, my friend.
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Food for serious thought, Martha,,,articulated beautifully, as per your usual. Lynnie
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Thanks, Lynnie. I owe it to my friend, whose husband is a survivor.
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We must also remember the ones who are still suffering dreadful lung ailments – the rescuers who ran toward the towers instead of away. Their live are also impacted to this day.
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Absolutely, Mandy, thank you.
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Well said Martha hun. God bless you!
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Thank you, Talin.
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Well said Martha.
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Thank you, Randy.
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Yes, let us remember those we lost , those who survived and those individuals who were there to save lives. Unfortunately the Prov Journal did not see fit to do so on its front page or any page close thereto…shame on that company.
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Totally agree, Cin.
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