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It is normal for humans to forget about how painful things are, and I feel 9/11 is very much the same.
I live in Lower NYC, I recall the thousands of people who walked through the community covered in dust, everyone was the same color, the color of dust. A local volunteer ambulance company had their ambulance parked right outside the world trade center only to have it destroyed. The other ambulances all went down, they all went down to help, you could see hundreds of sirens coming through the city downtown. Finally military vehicles came in, national guard came and locked down us down I could not leave my home go anywhere for 2 weeks. The block around the corner is named for a firefighter who passed away, I can talk about a dozen neighbors who had someone pass away there that day. I had a neighbor who witnessed it all, came back covered in dust soot, who for several years just stared at the tv, and only with years of therapy did he come out of his shell.
I think it is important we must not forget the true horror of that day.
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