Today I watched a bit of MSNBC’s “Living History”. This was a rerun of the Today Show on 9/11. I didn’t expect to be impacted so much by it, but when that second plane hit the second tower, and you heard everyone in the news room gasp at once and try and instantly realize this was much more sinister than a mere accident, my eyes welled up with tears before I even knew what hit me.
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Isn’t that interesting. I had a similar experience watching the replay today. That is exactly the same time when my emotions well up and take over – when we all began to realize that it was an attack and not an accident.
I had the exact same thing happen to me today… except I was trying to down a bowl of cereal when I lost it.
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