Emergency 911: America was called....

Abstract: This author expresses her thoughts and feelings about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City carried out on September 11, 2001. Key Words: Terrorist, World Trade Center. So easy to express in thought, yet so difficult to explain in words, because words are simply inadequate or are merely unacceptable in describing the worst event in the lives of the American people that occurred on September 11, 2001 (the day of tragedy). On that fateful Tuesday morning around 8:45 a.m., on the eastern corridor of the United States, occurred two incidents of painful images: American aircrafts crashing directly into the New York World Trade Center Tower Buildings, and approximately one hour later, into the Pentagon Building (center of the United States Military Operations) in Arlington, Virginia, just a stones' throw from the seat of the nation's government, Washington, DC; About twenty minutes later, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. These images were so powerful, they will forever remain etched in our memories. While serving as flashbacks in our hearts, we try daily to understand why such a major disaster took so many innocent lives and sent a special message to the entire world. After a week of trying to accept that a major crisis had occurred on American soil, the American people became a unit of one. What a time in history! With all people being in one accord, we had to actually acknowledge that there was a special someone or something greater than humans, who supplied sufficient strength, and a saving grace for all our needs. There were those bright moments that always break the monotony in the darkness of the day. People around the world held vigils praying and hoping for more life to be found among the rubble of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This recent tragedy has given us much to think about. Although, New York and Washington, DC may be forever physically wounded, the country itself is emotionally wounded. These are open wounds that must be cleansed daily with an imaginary isotonic fluid of patience, thoughtfulness, tenderness, self-control, truth and loyalty, administered to remove all psychological, behavioral, and physical properties that are holding dead space in the minds of most people. This treatment must continue daily for a long time covered with a wet to dry gauze of faith, love, prayer and forgiveness. The issue of our finances is at stake. Are we really ready for a "rainy day?" With Wall Street at an all time low, and its uncertain future, our fear of just survival became a major problem. People are extremely careful as to how they are spending money. The fear of being laid off from a job, or not having a job at all, is real. Our most popular mode of transportation in flying has been negatively affected forever. People who had to fly daily, now, have reservations about safety in the skies. In the one-half of a hundred years and in the memory, that this author has lived, never has the nation, at one time, suspended all airline travel, people were unable to go to places of their employment, or places of employment were suddenly no longer viable, and security became a top priority. Recently, visits were made as close as possible to Ground Zero and the west side of the Pentagon, where both appeared to be nothing short of a war zone battlefield. But through it all, we must remember, when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the Pentagon, three local young lives were among the many that were lost. Eleven year-old honor students (Bernard Brown, Asia Cotton and Rodney Dickens) from the District of Columbia Public School System, and three of their teachers, were enroute to a science fair to be held in Los Angeles. With such titles to describe America's state of being are constantly seen daily on all television stations, while a country is trying to regain its composure and move to some state of equilibrium or stability include: "Attack on America, Terrorism in America, War on America, War on Terror, America Mourns, America Fights Back, America Strikes Back, America at War, America's New War, Strike Against Terror, America on Alert, America Heals, America Recover, American on Guard, the Spirit of America, and the war itself Operation Enduring Freedom. …