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It was a September morning like any other. The air was still summer warm. The sky was a brilliant robin\u2019s egg blue. I stepped onto the 8:25 a.m. Metro North commuter train, headed toward my office at Guideposts<\/em> magazine on 34th Street in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me.\u201d I squeezed between a young woman wearing earphones who was thumbing through the color photo-filled pages of Star Magazine<\/em>, and a middle-aged gray-bearded man reading The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Drat.<\/em> The dreaded middle seat. Oh, well, at least I don\u2019t have to stand. <\/em><\/p>\n

I put on my sunglasses and folded my arms tightly across my chest, as though doing so might somehow make me not only smaller, but invisible. Before closing my eyes I sneaked glances at the headlines in my seatmates\u2019 reading material\u2014a microcosm of everyday life in twenty-first century America.<\/p>\n

On my left, in Star<\/em>, there was the insatiable culture of celebrity (\u201cLook Who\u2019s Got Cellulite!\u201d). On my right, in the New York Times<\/em>, bitter partisan politics (\u201cCampaigning for Mayor: City Voters Have Heard It All\u201d).<\/p>\n

Oozing from the pages of both\u2014as well as from the jokes told the night before on the late night TV talk shows\u2014was the prevailing tone of world-weary, been there-done that, above-it-all irony.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d just dozed off, when someone\u2019s cell phone chirped. Followed by another, and then another. Passengers began speaking in hushed, urgent tones, something about one of the World Trade Center\u2019s twin towers being hit by a plane. Not a small private plane. A big commercial airliner.<\/p>\n

How awful, <\/em>I thought. What a terrible accident.<\/em><\/p>\n

Several minutes passed, and a second shrill chorus of cell phones announced a second strike.<\/p>\n

This was no accident. We were being attacked.<\/em><\/p>\n

The bearded man next to me became agitated as he punched the buttons on his cell phone to no avail. \u201cMy staff is on the 86th floor of Tower One,\u201d he said. \u201cMy God, I hope they\u2019re all right.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the train rounded the bend north of 125th Street, passengers across the aisle left their seats to peer out the train\u2019s west windows at the terrifying spectacle of the towers burning.<\/p>\n

At Grand Central Station, I wedged myself into the crowd at the Hudson News kiosk, transfixed by the horrifying images on the elevated Fox News TV monitors. Fiery orange explosions. People jumping from the towers. Skirts billowing. A man and woman holding hands as they plummeted.<\/p>\n

This can\u2019t be happening.<\/em><\/p>\n

Walking south on Fifth avenue, I watched aghast as the blue sky filled with black smoke hemorrhaging from ugly gashes in both towers. At street level there was the surreal sensation of being in a 1950s Japanese horror movie. People with radios and cell phones pressed to their ears shouted breaking news. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve hit the Pentagon!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a plane headed for the White House!\u201d<\/p>\n

At the office, I frantically tried to phone my husband Tom, who had driven into Manhattan earlier in the morning for a breakfast meeting with a client somewhere in the city… But where exactly? Downtown? Uptown? If only I had asked! <\/em><\/p>\n

I tried to call our daughter Katy at her New York University dorm downtown, on Greenwich Street. I tried to call my sister in her classroom at Middle School 131 in downtown Chinatown, where she taught sixth grade science. But none of their cell phones were working.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you hear?\u201d A young ashen-faced staffer cried out from her office across the hall. \u201cThe south tower has fallen!\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I phoned my mother back at our house in New Canaan, Connecticut, and told her not to worry. I phoned my friend Alison, and told her I couldn\u2019t get in touch with Tom, Katy, or my sister, that they were all downtown, and would she please pray?<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course,\u201d she replied. \u201cOh, my God, Kitty. Are you near a television? The north tower is falling…\u201d<\/p>\n

My desk phone rang. It was Tom. He was safe. I sobbed with relief. His breakfast meeting had not been downtown, but just five blocks away on 39th<\/sup> Street at the Williams Club where Tom, an alumnus of Williams College, was a member.<\/p>\n

We agreed to meet there, where the staff was busy setting up phone banks, and tables with bottled water and emergency provisions.<\/p>\n

As the morning dragged on, men and women covered in white dust, looking like ghosts, staggered up the steps and through the door. Survivors from the horror downtown, they had walked the four miles to the Williams Club in shock.<\/p>\n

Once we had finally gotten through to Katy and my sister, and made sure they were safe, and called my mother, and our son Brinck at his high school to reassure them that we were all okay, Tom and I headed for home via the West Side Highway. It was three o\u2019clock in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Across from us on the southbound lane, an endless convoy of ambulances and emergency vehicles from the northern suburbs, including New Canaan, moved toward what the newscaster on the radio was calling \u201cGround Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

I turned around in my seat and looked south where a dismal dirty gray cloud filled the empty space where the twin towers had stood. It seemed impossible that they were gone.<\/p>\n

National Guardsmen, armed with rifles and wearing camouflage uniforms and black boots, stood at the Henry Hudson Bridge toll gates, and inspected our car before letting us pass.<\/p>\n

When we finally made it home, Tom and I pulled my father\u2019s flag\u2014the flag that had covered Dad\u2019s casket when he died\u2014out from the darkness of the closet and hung it over the front door. Across the street and next-door, our neighbors had put out their flags, too.<\/p>\n

As I stood looking at the flag, I remembered how as a teenager, my father\u2019s patriotism had embarrassed me. At high school football games I wanted to hide when he placed his right hand over his heart and lustily bellowed every word to the Star Spangled Banner<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Back then, my father\u2019s old-fashioned, unapologetic patriotism seemed not only corny, but irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Forged by the fires of adversity and sacrifice, his patriotism was the birthright of a different generation\u2014the Greatest Generation\u2014surely something that could never burn in my privileged baby boomer\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The two towers were not all that fell on that awful day. If only for a moment, all that was trivial about everyday American life fell away, too. The culture of celebrity. Partisan politics. Irony. All were unmasked as the cheap, shallow, frivolous imposters that they were.<\/p>\n

Rising out of the ruins, all that remained standing were the Important Things: Faith. Family. Friends. Freedom. Essential and enduring, they offered meaning and hope to a nation and people suffering incalculable heartache and loss.<\/p>\n

Now, <\/em>I thought, is the time to say, \u201cI love you.\u201d Now is the time to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d Now is the time to say, \u201cThank you.\u201d Now is the time to make peace with God. Now is the time. Tomorrow may be too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

On September 11, 2001, it was all so clear.<\/p>\n

This story is excerpted with the author\u2019s permission from her latest book, Heart Songs: A Family Treasury of True Stories of Hope and Inspiration<\/em><\/a>. For information on the Inspiring Voices publishing service that published Kitty’s book, visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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