I am watching Sunday Night Baseball while stitching and the crowd noise begins to swell as 45,000 strong start chanting USA! USA! The players were puzzled as they couldn’t hear the play by play announcer say ” reports are in that Osama bin Laden is dead” The sounds from the fans at the Phillies & Mets game saying USA in unison was very moving…just think at that moment this was probably the largest gathering of Americans in one place.
Of course for many of us, it brings back allot of memories and thoughts of where were you when you found out? I had just left Washington DC not 24 hours earlier from the American Needlepoint Guild Seminar. What am amazing time that I had! It was my first vist to Washington DC and in between my classes, I took in all the sights and sounds I could possibly squeeze into my short visit. One of my memorbale memories was a private narrated night time tour of all the monuments lit up against the night sky by Jo Christensen! Another special remembrance was my class with Tony Minieri in the Washington DC teapot class. It proudly hangs on my wall and I will never forget what happened on 9/11.
Vicky,
Thanks for reminding us of those moving images. The teapot/flag piece is lovely. Just heard a news report that someone at Ground Zero tonight was waving a banner that said “America – Promises Kept” – quite a lovely sentiment.
Missy, that sentiment couldn’t be said any better… thank you for sharing
Liz Lennert and I had stayed at the seminar hotel to go sightseeing on Tues and Wed. Just getting ready to leave the hotel for Arlington when we saw the planes on TV. Then went down to the lobby and someone came running in….”they hit the Pentagon”. We could see the smoke and a few minutes later and we would have been on the train going by it. On Thurs we finally got out of the hotel and went to the Washington National Cathedral. We sat in the same row, across the aisle from where all the President’s sat the next day, and listened/watched the rehearsal for the Memorial Service scheduled for the next day. Then we watched it from the hotel on Friday. We finally got out on Sat a.m…left the hotel at 6 a.m. and got to LAX at midnite…home at 2 a.m. Something we’l never forget. My Army son had 3 tours in Iraq…..eventually will probably go to Afghanistan.