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Jan 05, 2011, 08:14 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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It was horrifying and surreal to see that played out on the TV screen.  My son was a young teenager then. Later in the evening, a friend of his came over as my son was watching the replays on TV. When my son told him to check out the clip, his friend's face lit up and he said "COOL!" - he thought it was an "action and adventure" movie at first. It was hard for him to wrap his head around that one because the kid really liked to watch explosions and implosions on TV. 
I turned on the TV just after the first building was hit and watched it all play out. After the initial shock, I thought of all my friends and loved ones. I also recalled all those conversations I had with my doctors, residents, medical students and patients. Many of them came from war-torn countries and had stories that were inconceivable to me. What happened to us on 9/11 was daily life for them. 
One of my closest friends was a woman from Iraq. She started out as a first-year resident, still wet behind the ears, lol. She blossomed into one of the most brightest physicians, specializing in pediatric infectious disease. She had a LOT of family in Iraq, and I know she loved them dearly. They depended on her. Unfortunately, she contracted meningitis from one of her patients and died in 1998. When the rest of the U.S.A. was "cheering" over Bush's "shock and awe" display, I was crying for Margaret's family. They had already been through sooooo much. 
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