remembering

woke up this morning to someone calling, and I couldn't answer in time, whoever it was left a msg but for some reason couldn't access my vm...hope they do call back, what is all that noice I hear? sirens howling all over our neighborhood, went and stood at my kitchen door couldn't see any trucks or motorcycles but the noise was so loud like it was happening inside my house..I thought, don't tell me that it's another tsunami warning, great...we don't even have cable to see what's happening, we don't even have a radio on...came to the internet and thought surely there's some word there but when I looked at the screen, saw the pictures of sad people holding up pictures of their loved ones, looked at the time on the screen and suddenly remembered the sirens were howling at the exact time the twin towers were hit in New York. I remember it clearly as if it were yesterday. I have family in New York, probably like some of you, I remember the frantic calls trying to find out if my sister in-law and daughters were alright, thank God! one of them answered and said yes, just shaken from fear and shock..I remember trying to find out about my cousin's daughter and her husband working at the UNHQ..I found out later (4 days later from her mom in Apia), my niece walked without shoes from their building that was around the corner of ground zero all the way home(across from Manhattan) because the roads shut down and the subway was also shut down. I remember my husband's sister working for AA in Texas calling and asking if we saw what's happening, saying she just cleared the flight not too many hours before one of them crashed into the twin towers. I cannot forget because we were attacked by the enemy, and the very bones of my body shook because I knew from then on how important it is to stand firm in faith and pray for everyone and pray for this nation of America.