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One very small good thing from WTC...

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on Sep 12, 2001 at 17:33 UTC ( [id://111905]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The World Trade Center Tragedy

My father worked on the 82nd floor of Tower 2. Luckily, he was on a business trip to Burma, of all places, that left this past Saturday. When I spoke to him last night, he told me that his trip wasn't supposed to leave till this Saturday.

That was the first time I'd spoken to him in three years. We have had a rift over my choice of religion and bedpartners that started in Nov, 1998. There have been many times I felt that his death would've been one of the best things in my life, because it would've allowed me to be with my family during large gatherings again.

Yet, the very first thing I wanted to do the moment I found out for certain that he worked there was to ask my Mom for the number to reach him in Burma. All I wanted to say was that I love him and that I'm glad he's alive.

When I talked to him, he was in a bit of shock. Right now, he doesn't know if he even has a job when he comes home, cause he was a consultant for a Japanese bank whose American prescence is now bits and pieces on the road. It's very likely that none of his coworkers made it out alive. I know for a fact that he wouldn't have. I've heard all the stories of people running down 87 flights of steps, but he's the kind of person that would've stayed behind to make sure someone else got out.

This attack is the kind of thing that would make me want to join the military and take up arms just to go kill the motherfuckers that did this to us. But, in my life, there is one small thing that this disaster has given me - a second chance with my father.

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One very small good thing from WTC that didn't pan out
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 27, 2002 at 20:37 UTC
    It's been nearly six months since 9-11. That's still the only time my father and I have spoken since November, 1998. I was even in the same state as him for Thanksgiving, but my mother and sister had to travel to my grandparents' to see me and meet my fiancee. (I wasn't allowed in the house.)

    Just as the "War on Terrorism" has turned out to be not quite what it seemed*, this latest chance at a reconciliation has bombed as well.

    I don't know why I'm even saying this. I guess I didn't want people to read the above node and think that even after a near-death experience, people will always change for the better. I'm sure there's a pithy saying there, but I can't find it.

    * Read the articles on http://www.wsws.org if you're curious - they're slanted, but they give more facts than the mainstream US media.

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    We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

    Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.

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