Yesterday, I tried to find this story of a survivor of 9-11 and his story. SI's advance search was down, but now accessible..... Note that now, the original CNN link is gone, so it's worth it to us to post the entire article so it can be refound if necessary. It's worth the read again....he titled his piece "The Price We Pay"....after the attacks on our ME Embassies AGAIN, it is worth thinking about, and what freedom means to us.
Adam Mayblum email that tells of his Sept 11th experience and living through it...... the whole story is at the link.....
With regards to the firemen heading upstairs, I realize that they were going up anyway. But, it hurts to know that I may have made them move quicker to find my friend. Rationally, I know this is not true and that I am not the responsible one. The responsible ones are in hiding somewhere on this planet and damn them for making me feel like this. But they should know that they failed in terrorizing us. We were calm. Those men and women that went up were heroes in the face of it all. They must have known what was going on and they did their jobs. Ordinary people were heroes too. Today the images that people around the world equate with power and democracy are gone but "America" is not an image it is a concept. That concept is only strengthened by our pulling together as a team. If you want to kill us, leave us alone because we will do it by ourselves. If you want to make us stronger, attack and we unite. This is the ultimate failure of terrorism against The United States and the ultimate price we pay to be free, to decide where we want to work, what we want to eat, and when & where we want to go on vacation. The very moment the first plane was hijacked, democracy won.
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