In Remembrance of 9/11 2001....

Thank You For Stopping By To Share With Me A Moment Or More In Remembering the Horrendous Murder Of Nearly 3000 Lives On That Clear Blue Sky Morning Of Tuesday, 11 September 2001 In New York City Between 8.46 and 10.28am.

        I doubt there are many who do not remember.

I am in Australia, I was one of the many whose Television was on when the First World Trade Centre Tower was hit. I saw the second plane approaching, as a Friend sat beside me saying... "Magda, that is really happening!". I could see the second plane was heading for the other World Trade Centre Tower, while on the Ground confusion was gathering but still not registering where that second plane was heading to.... and then it struck... and all the reality of the horror happening truly began registering and taking hold amid the confusion on the Ground.

          A few years later I learnt another Event had been simultaneously coming together on that tragic morning. An assembly was gathering in preparation, to establish with the United Nations, to have that very day recognised as the International Date for Peace One Day. A movement founded by Jeremy Gilley.

        On the very morning, at the very same time, a Day of Peace was readying to be acknowledged.... but events ensured... the concept of and practical doing of, A Day Of No Violence being recognised for all about our Earth to think about actively applying would be resisted and defied.

        Those gathered, excited, pleased, saw their goal nearly achieved being shredded. One by one Lives had their Life's Light extinguished by the merciless impact from those planes now wedged and burning in the two World Trade Centres' Towers, and Lives continued being extinguished all through the numbing experience being witnessed as eventually the Towers, like a concertina, became a heap of rubble on the Ground with over 2000 Lives no longer shining brightly, and about 6000 confused, injured, and trapped in it all.

        But...

Amid the resulting carnage, the shattered emotions of those having witnessed the horror unfolding, the everyday remembering for those without loved ones, or still damaged because of that day.... 

        Those against Peace also failed...

A day recognised internationally as a day of no violence globally did still happen....

        the date changing to 21st September... established that very month, in that very year - 2001.

        I had seen a Documentary on Jeremy Gilley and his efforts to create a day of Global Peace, and listened as he retold what he saw on that Tuesday morning of 11 September 2011 while waiting outside the United Nations Hall of Assembly Building.

        My mind found it so hard to absorb.... my mind kept spinning, taking in the information that the very day a Day of Peace would be declared... was also a day when the very concept of Peace was being devastatingly destroyed....

        It took the suicidal power of a few to ruin the living power of many... horrible.

I quote Jeremy Gilley's words...

"By working together there will be Peace One Day"

May that be the way and the truth and may Peace happen sooner than later.

Thank you,

May what we have given here this day be found acceptable.

Appreciation from Magda and Family

The Remembrance photo is by -

   National Park Service

      Sourced from -

         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

Jeremy Gilley's words (under'About') at the site for Peace One Day -

   http://www.peaceoneday.org
      For further understanding about Jeremy Gilley and his Peace One Day project -
         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Gilley