I remember how painful 9/11 was -- most of the events that day stick in my memory. I was at work when I saw on CNN the hole in the first tower after the plane hit. At first, people were in disbelief that a pilot could accidentally run into such a large and prominent building.
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After the second plane hit, there was no doubt left that our country was suffering a terrorist attack. Just closing my eyes and thinking of all the men and women who just went to work that day only to have to decide whether burning to death or falling to their death was
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the preferred method to end their life made me sick. That entire day, I felt vulnerable in a way I had never felt before. The scope of the tragedy was just too much for my brain to comprehend.
On January 6, I had an equally horrible but much different feeling. The attackers
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we're some people from another country -- they were my own country brethren. And today after seeing the new evidence, I am realizing just how precarious that day was and how close some people came to losing their life from a vicious mob.
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But what really hurts? What really makes me scared? Its the fact that so any of our country's own politicians don't recognize the gravity of the situation and are possibly complicit in that day's events. It is a sickening feeling that my own country is collapsing from the inside.
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