The Wounds Are Deep and Still Hurt- Even After Ten Years

It's hard to believe that ten years have passed since that terrible day that we have all come to know as 911.

I don't know if it was planned by these nineteen individuals, or if it was just coincidence, that the numbers, nine one one, as they are known to all of us as a call for help. If you are in trouble or in an accident, you call the national number known to all states in our country as 911, and emergency assistance will be out to you right away. Because of what happened ten years ago, 911 has forever taken on a whole different meaning.

The pictures, the sounds, the heart wrenching last conversations from people in burning office buildings or airplanes that were en-route to a final ending, came to their loved ones back at home, are still forever and vividly etched into our memories.

We see the signs and we read the plagues, "Remember 911", how can we ever forget? Or will we?

As the last of the World War II vets are slowly passing away, and with them the stories and the memories are passing away too, will it still be as remembered thirty or forty years from now as it is today? Will 911 still have the same impact on our children fifty years from now as it does on America today?

The second world war was exactly that, a world war, and that is not going to be easily forgotten. 6 million people tortured and executed right under the world's nose, is not something that can just be swept under the rug, although there are those who have tried to do it, and to this day call it a big hoax, but will we allow that to happen with 911?

Today, there are those that say America planned and perpetrated the whole thing. We were the ones to fly jet planes into the World Trade Center. We killed almost three thousand people.

For any of you who have experienced an accident, you know that after it's all over it takes time for you to put all the pieces back together as to what happened. Sometimes it feels as if it really didn't happen or it was just a bad dream. It's not until other people, who witnessed the accident or rushed you to the hospital, tell you of the actual events that played out the scene, that you finally come to believe what happened, and even than it still may take a long time for everything to sink in.

I'll let the stories speak for themselves, and you decide. See if you can remember that day, where you were as the events of that day unraveled. Take a peak inside at some of the real stories.

Stephen Mulderry

The 33-year-old equity trader called his mom. “Mom, my building’s been hit by a plane. And right now... I think I’m OK, I’m safe now but it’s smoky. “I just want to say how much I love you (voice breaks a little) and I will call you when I’m safe. OK mom? Bye.”

Brian Nunez

Brian, 29, was struggling to breathe when he tried to ring brother Neal twice. But Neal had just got home from a night shift and was trying to sleep.

Brian’s message said: “A plane crashed into the Trade Center. It’s on fire, and I’m in it, and I can’t breathe. Tell everyone I love them, and if I don’t get out... goodbye.”

Melissa Harrington Hughes

Stuck in one of the towers she makes a call to her newlywed husband at 9:07am, "Sean, it's me," she said in her message. "I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. There's a lot of smoke and I just wanted to let you know that I love you always," she said.

Mark Bingham

One of a group of passengers who tried to overpower the hijackers and regain control of Flight 93 -- called his mother to say goodbye.

"He said, 'I want you to know I love you very much, and I'm calling you from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men who say they've got a bomb."

Ceecee Lyles

Flight attendant on Flight 93, left this message to her husband on the answering machine,

"Please tell my children that I love them very much. I'm sorry, baby. I wish I could see your face again."

These are the things that stick in my head. These were just five people of the 2753, that were facing death and yet were thinking about others over themselves. Their thoughts were not of hatred and anger toward the people that were doing this, they didn't have time to put their lives in order, but their thoughts were toward their loved ones and expressing that love as best they could for one last time.

When I think of 911 in this way, it brings this big massive experience into it's smallest denominator, and details out to all of us, a small portion of the lives of the almost 3000 people that were taken from us on that terrible day on the 11th of September, 2001.

The events were horrific and tragic, but it's the people that we can never forget. The loss of mom, dads, sisters and brothers, friends and co-workers, that will never laugh, or cry or ever be able to share with the people that they loved so much.

There will always be a huge empty hole in America's heart for what took place on 911.