Sep 11 2008
Mental Health Humor: 9-11 - Stop - Remember - Hope - Heal — *** — DO NOT READ IF 9/11 IS A TRIGGER FOR YOU
Mental Health Humor: 9-11 - Stop - Remember - Hope - Heal
This post could be a trigger for some. If talking about 9-11 effects you, I ask that you stop reading and click on the Site Map and review some of my other cartoons.
I think it is safe to say, most of us remember where and what we were doing the morning of September 11, 2001. I was drawing a cartoon for my weekly series for the industry I worked in. This was something I did since 1999 and that day, I was drawing just like I did every week. Listening to the radio.. when Kiss108’s, Matty In the morning said a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. I put my pencil down maneuvered around all the packing boxes for our move from Boston to Florida and turned on the T.V. The fire and smoke was bellowing out from the first tower hit.
I sat and watched like everyone must have and then saw the second tower get hit on live T.V… I watched and listened to every second. Still, it was shocking and sad but, still just surreal. One reporter started to talk about how they are going to have to get people out while they focused and zoomed up on this one lady screaming for help on a top floor. She had black hair, her face was covered with soot except where her tears cleaned it away. She has a light sky blue top and was waving a jacket top. She was 3 windows near the corner of the building. I can see her face as clear as day. I can see the fear and hopelessness in her eyes all because the telescopic zoom lens was able to zoom right up to her as clear as day.
The reporter was talking still out of the frame with her back to the towers. The camera man slowly started to zoom out, and the lady in blue just kept waving. Then, with out warning, that corner collapsed. When it was all over 2,974 people died. I, like many of you, watched it all live on T.V. and I felt like I was there, and I will always have that image of the lady in blue with me.
I walked away from the T.V., went back to my office and cried. I looked at the cartoon and lost the desire to draw. I put down my pencil and stopped drawing for any type of cartoon for five years. I just could not do it. I lost my humor, I lost the funny.
It was not till late 2006, when I found all my old cartoons I did on a computer I was giving away….that I decided to build a website and post them. I talked to a few old friends who helped me find the desire to pick up the pencil again. But for today, September 11, 2008, I place my pencil down and Stop, Remember, Hope, and Heal.
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Chato, that was touching. I think that day is a trigger for a lot of people. I think that day triggered a change in so many of us, some a permanent emotional scar. We all have those memories, like short videos, in our minds eye. I hope we can heal, but never forget.
~Kelly
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