9-11 Thoughts

With the recent ceremonies surrounding the 10th anniv of that horrible day in 2001, I still find it hard to believe that 10 years have passed.  I remember Ronda, our admin person with the Knights, coming into my office and saying the first tower had been hit.  Like everyone else I was thinking what a freak accident.  Did the pilot have a heart attack or just lose control of a small plane?  That question was unfortunately answered minutes later when a second plane attacked on live television.  We all know that events that followed so no need to rehash them.

I remember thinking "Wow, this is going to happen across the entire country and I live in one of the top financial cities in the world (Charlotte, NC) and it will probably be a target."  Rocky and I had just started dating a few months earlier and my thoughts immediately went to her and that she worked in a large public gathering place that could be a target.  Probably the most eerie thing was the deafening silence that now filled the air as all air traffic was grounded.  Knights Stadium was located in the landing pattern for Charlotte-Douglas Airport and always had the hum of planes flying over sort of like the old Shea Stadium in NY.   When that stopped, it became very real that something wrong was happening and I headed to the comfort of home.  The events throughout that day seemed surreal and as more footage became available it seemed like something out of a movie but this one wasn't going away and have a happy ending.

Later in the week Rocky and I were schedule to take a trip up to Baltimore for a weekend series between the Sox and O's as well as meet my dad and Trish up at her brother's house.  Dad wanted to see Cal Ripken play and this was going to be a fun trip.  We were taking the train and were not sure if train travel was also going to be halted but later found out it would not be.  MLB still had not decided if the games that weekend would be played or not when we left and we later would learn that all games were ppd which we were prepared for and understood.  The one thing we were not prepared for was the very real picture outside the window to our left as the train rolled past the Pentagon....still smoldering from it's attack.  

We look at life much different now, at least I do, but I think it is important to also live your life to it's fullest especially now that we have Sam and Grayson.  Life can be taken away at any time so it is important to live and love the things that you have 100% of the time.  We can't control many things in life but you can control how much fun you have with your family. 

That's what it is in the world of the Sports Grapevine........