The day before I had a job interview for a position with a company called First Health Insurance. They had recently bought a local medical bill - processing company named CCN. The VP of Human Resources flew in to Tampa from Chicago for the day and was planning on a return flight the next day 9/11/01.
Her name was Nancy. She was around the same age as I and had been with the company through several years of rapid growth. She was excited about the future prospects as the company continued to grow mostly by acquisition.
We got along pretty well that day and I felt good about my chances. The next day things changed forever for all of us.
Vicki called me from work in the morning and for the next several days I just remember being glued to the television watching in amazement as the video of the jets crashing into the twin towers repeated. Each new hour it seemed more information and different perspectives filled the sound bites around the constant replay of the amazing video footage.
The stories of terror, panic and bravery were all unfolding and being shared through whatever media was available. I remember thinking what was it that these innocent people from all walks of life could have done to deserve an attack and an end like this? What was it that we did or represented as a society that could provoke such hatred to produce a plan for such indiscriminate carnage?
All this in the name of god? Our curse and blessing as humans is this brain functionality. In our wants and needs we are not that different from the other species on this earth, but as it has been observed before, we are the only species that will kill for reasons other than sustenance.
It is our daily fight for order and sanity. It is our hell on earth. I hope we can come to our senses, but there is so much damage done.
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