How did you feel then? How do you feel now?

[ziggytrix]

Let's see - back then: complete and total state of shock. Everyone in the apartment complex gathered at a friend's apartment where we'd often gathered to watch movies, but that day we were watching the news. People kept coming and going, I guess some folks didn't want everyone to see them crying, but there wasn't a dry eye there... anyway 5 years later...

It was a lot easier to remember what the date was when logging time at work today.

I noticed a lot of flags in front of the businesses on our block.

Some asshole friend of mine called the posters on another message board I read "pathetic" for not having made a 9/11 anniversary thread before he got home from work.

Another day came and went. People are still dying all over the world, and somewhere a self-righteous jerk is yelling at people for not being mournful enough of the deaths he's thinking about at the moment.

Not much has changed from a local perspective, except for the contents people's bumper stickers and an empty place setting at soldiers' families' dinner tables.

I guess I'm lucky so far that everyone I personally know who's gone over there has made it back, though I did find out last year that some kid I don't remember from my graduating class was the first Arkansan casualty in Iraq.