Welcome to today's DMusical Notes...

Well by the time you all read this it'll be 1 year after that faithful day last year when the Twin Towers of New York were knocked out of the sky... actually as I write this at nearly 3am the odd feeling of knowing that in about 4 hours the planes struck exactly one year ago. I remember that day clearly as I was awake and at the gym. I walked out into the lobby area and saw a crowd around a TV, a odd feeling of dread came over me and when I saw that the first building had blown up I was like "wow... holy shit!". The explosion looked as if it had come from a hollywood set, I was in total shock... how could this "accident" have happened? I even asked one of the many onlookers of the television set... "Was it an accident?"

Watching a few more minutes later I saw what looked to be a reverse angle of the plane hitting the tower...

but it wasn't a reverse angle...

it was the other tower being hit. He answered me "I don't think so." or something similar to that.

That was one of the most f*cked up thing I have ever seen in my life. Now I'm not talking digusting gore factor here but just the fact that I just watched a skyscraper getting nailed with an airplane on a tv station that wasn't FOX or HBO but CNN.

For the next 20 or so minutes I watched and then I decided that I couldn't work out any longer... I felt... well in shock... surely not as badly as those that were in New York at the precise moment but still shocked that this had happened.

In my mind then I still wasn't sure it was an attack... it just seemed too surreal, like suddenly I had walked onto a movie set.

Arriving at home I immediatly turned on CNN once again... I saw a wide shot of the the New York Coastline. My god... I can still see it, the cloud of debris and soot in the air. I thought to myself... now what the hell happend? It took 2 or 3 long and agonizing minutes to find out that tower had collapsed... I thought to myself that surely the building would remain standing even with the giant flamming hole through the top of it. Never in my wildest imagination could I ever fathom the idea of either of those buildings collapsing.

For the entire day, I sat there, on my couch watching to see what would happen next. I watched as CNN reported on the Pentagon being hit and my jaw dropped as I saw the other tower going down.

I remember clearly when I called the mechanic to see if my car would be ready. I remember him saying... "well this is all pretty messed up now and I doubt we'll have your car ready for you till next week." Or something like that, my parts needed to be ordered.

I remember going to the only class I had that day at 3pm... the teacher telling us that class is cancelled but still we ended up sitting there for 30 minutes talking about what had transpired. I expected as much would happen. Don't even know why I bothered going.

I remember going home and turning on CNN again. Now I got to see the carnage from the ground level. I saw stills of people leaping to their deaths... what could have been going through THEIR minds?

One year later I am still shooken up over this. Today I went back... back in time and relived the horrible existence. I went back and I did some searching and I found Simon's Sept 11th Article and I read through many of the comments that you the DMusic members made... I didn't read all of them, that would have taken me a couple of hours.

The article itself is like a time capsule capturing everyone's raw emotion and feelings. It would a great favor to me if you all went back and remember what happened.

If you didn't notice I skipped the news for the day. None of it really felt like it was even worth reporting. A few were just plain down notes and I didn't want to make the DMNs a big drear fest...

I found a bit of good news that got me a bit cheery today.

Christopher Reeves regains feeling
Credit Yahoo News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Christopher Reeve, the "Superman" actor who was paralyzed seven years ago, has regained some movement and sensation in his arms and legs, a spokeswoman for the actor said on Tuesday, and his doctor holds out hope he may one day walk again.

Reeve, whose spinal cord was severely damaged when he fell off a horse during an equestrian event, has regained the ability to move his right wrist, the fingers of his left hand and his feet," Maggie Goldberg, spokeswoman for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, said in a statement.

"He can now feel a pin prick on the majority of his body and can move some of his joints voluntarily. He can also move other joints against resistance," said Goldberg about the progress made by Reeve over three years in a treatment regimen devised by Dr. John McDonald.

McDonald, medical director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, told this week's People magazine that Reeve had made unprecedented progress with the "activity-based" treatment and might yet realize his dream of walking out of his wheelchair.

"The fact that he's having some recovery could make that a possibility," said McDonald, who this month published an article about working with Reeve in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.

Reeve did not regain any motor functions below his shoulders until five years after his injury. Previously, experts thought recovery was possible only within the first six months to two years.

Most important to Reeve, who turns 50 later this month, is that he now can feel the hugs he receives from his family.

"To be able to feel just the lightest touch is really a gift," Reeve told People.

"The fact is that even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished. It's as simple as that."

It's been three hundred and sixty-five days since the World Trade Center attacks. I never said anything in the comments back then... I just wrote my little hardware reviews and went merrily on my way. But I just want all of you know that 365 days after the tragedy that changed this nation, I remember it and am still sickened at the thought of it. I hope none of you ever forget the courage of the nation and all that happened.

I will always remember and I hope you will too.

Joe

Though I expected it when I clicked on the link to this picture, and though I've seen those images before, seeing them again just made my stomach lurch.

watched the services this morning on the news channels. every local station had it too. My prayer's are and still will be with everyone that lost a loved one on that fatal day.

I hope Superman walks again. I don't care much for his acting skills, but that photo of him is a nightmare. No one should have to go through that, I feel for the poor bastard, regardless.

Rest in Peace Scott, Tammy, and the rest of 9/11's victims.

I think Reeve really deserves the title of Superman