[4theboyz]

Hello Pamina,

I too share a similar experience in how suddenly your comfort zone is shattered by events that somehow always seem to happen to only other people far away in the world as I was in an airplane the morning of 9/11 only to suddenly land in a forever changed chaotic world. Fear takes on a whole new meaning and celebrating life has to then share the stage with a new found urgency to preserve those things near and dear to you.

Odd how one thing I remember most vividly that day after finally being able to leave the airport with my family in tow and settling down in a hotel room far from home is having a glass of whiskey and it's burning warmth shooting through my veins attempting in vain to wash away the horrors of the day.

Though I have yet to even come close to that experience now that I'm sober and how major daily life crisis's are much better dealt with AF, I'm not sure a how I would react to such an event today and hope I never have to ever again.

Shake those awful thoughts loose and celebrate another great AF day today! I feel great today despite our hot-humid post-storm morning!

4tb