I have no idea if this particular thread can be inserted into the archive. The format the Smithsonian has set up is for each individual to insert their particular story of what they were doing on that day. Some are VERY long...some are VERY brief...all are filled with sorrow.
I had only thought that such a large contingent that comes to the Free Republic could also find representation their, individual by individual. So those who were miles away don't feel so cut off from what happened. It is easy to compartmentalize it and think "oh it happened to THEM...not to us..."
But that is not what I have been feeling.
And I don't want to forget how it felt to be a New Yorker that day.