9/11 May Be History to You. It Isn’t to Me.
I don’t have a scary, amazing, heroic or even relevant 9/11 story – when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were felled, when the Pentagon was attacked and when a plane full of heroes offered their lives up in a Pennsylvania field so that the U.S. Capitol would not be attacked.
I was in a bagel shop in Buffalo, NY, when the first tower was hit. At work when the second tower was hit.
My story is meaningless in the world and unforgettable to me.
There are millions of 9/11 stories like mine.
But what I want to write here – and maybe this will live on after I am long gone (I’d be 87 on the 50th anniversary, and there are no guarantees I’ll see it) – is this…
Please don’t forget 9/11/01.
I know people who lived through it won’t forget 9/11, but I guess I am really talking to those of you born after 9/11.
To you born later, 9/11 is history. To us who lived through it, it’s fact. A hard reality. Unforgettable.
I wasn’t born during the Civil War, World War I or World War II…to me, that’s history, just like 9/11 would be history to you post-9/11 babies.
But I have always tried to remember just how awfully real those historic events were to the people who – like those of us around for 9/11 – lived through those tragic wars.
I worry that history is becoming less relevant to the generations born over the past 25 years, so that 9/11 might be as easily dismissed as the War Between the States.
Don’t dismiss our history…especially the bad stuff. When we forget, when we get lazy about historic details, we are susceptible to making new mistakes just like some of the old ones our forefathers made.
I’m talking about more than just a moment of silence, a prayer or a reading of names. That’s all very good.
But remember the details. Visit the sites of ALL these historic events. Remember those who were murdered and those who died so that others would not die.
And today, remember 9/11.
God bless America.
If voiceover talents are honest with themselves, we really aren’t as good as we should be about keep our stores clean, fresh and repainted.
As the Buffalo Bills prepare to host the Pittsburgh Steelers in a Divisional Playoff game in my old home town of Buffalo, NY (well actually, the stadium is the the suburb of Orchard Park, NY), I felt I should address something that might not get spoken of very often.
RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA – January 1, 2024 – – If you’re going to be America’s Friendly, Neighborhood Voiceover Talent, your voiceover logo better look a lot more friendly and fun. At least that’s what Voice Talent Peter K. O’Connell decided, feeling his last logo design (yes, his design so he’s to blame) didn’t have enough of either.
