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 thinking of friend and grandfather
Posted by: dennis from ogden, utah
Tuesday September 09, 2003 @ 04:36 PDT

on the morning of the 11 i was just waking up in the morning it was about 7 over here, i didnt get much sleep because of the day before on the 10 i had just put on of my good friends to rest at the age of 23, wich he did not get to celibrate because he had died on the 3 labor day weekend with a camping accident, and his birthday was the 7, and his wife didnt want to do anything with having his funeral on the weekend of his birthday, so she waited until monday for his funeral, after we got done with that we went to a friends house to talk and reflect some things and share some stories about what we had done in the past, when i got a call from my parents that the went to go and check on my grandpa to see how he was doing. and found him colapsed on the dining room floor. and on the way to the hospital following the ambulance they called me to get a hold of all of my brothers and sisters to let them know that grandpa isnt looking to good and they dont expect him to live through the night. so i fell to my knees crying my eyes out on the front yard of his house. they came out to see if i was ok and what was going on, so they took me up to the hospital so that i could see him, and also help me with getting a hold of my siblings, so we got there and the doctor said that he is stable but his diabitics has gone out of control and that cant get back into remetion. so they needed to keep him to see what the could try to do for him. we ended up going home late that night so that we could get to work the next morning cause we already had the monday of for my frieds funeral, and we couldnt get another day at short notice. but even still i couldn't sleep that night until i finally got some sleep but not much. then when my buzzer went of on my radio, i switch it to the radio like i do every morning before i get into the shower, when i stumbled into the shower the radio was talking about it just like everywhere is the country if not world, but i wasn't cohearant enough to comply with what they where saying until i was in the shower for a short 3 minutes than i realized what they where saying on the news so i jumped out to watch it on the tv and just when i turned it on they where replaying the plane stricking into the building, so again i just hit my knees crying for the people there in new york going thru this trama, and i just wasnt able to drag my self away from the tv to get going to work and before i new it the time was 10 oclock and i was very late for work, but just then i got a page on my pager saying that we had the day of everybody get together with thier family to make sure that they are alright, and if we had any family in new york to try to get a hold of them to see if they where alright. i dont have any family in new york but i got dressed will listening to it on the radio, and headed to the hospital to see how my grandpa was doing, when i got there the nurses had the tv on outside of his room watching the coverage that was going on, they didnt have it on in my grandpas room cause they didn't want to stress him out with anything. but he was cohearent enough to hear the tv, and wispered to my mom that the world is f*** up right now and he dosnt know what happend but being the proud wwii vet he felt that he needed to go and fight for his country and sit things right, mom got him relaxed with convencing him that he had fought his war and this one is for the new generation of soldiars. my grandpa fought as long as he could to stay alive but only lasted for two more weeks before he had passed on. so i not only think every sept. 11 about the victims of that tragedy but i also think about the lose of my friend and that of my grandpa. so on this two year aniversary of these days that i write about with a tear in my eyes i say. try to remember the good times, and we shall move forward in time. but never forget 9-11-01.
with god speed and love to every one.
may someday we have peace in the world.
bless us all, thanks