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You Feeling The Walls Are Closing In?

Are you feeling it too?

Jerry Pompilio
7 min readMay 25, 2023
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You can’t explain it, but something doesn’t feel right.

For some of you, it might have started with the Covid virus pandemic. For me, it started on 9/11/2001. There is no denying something going on.

It’s not just America, it’s happening all over the world

It was a beautiful sunny Indian Summer on a September morning. I woke up to start my day and put on the news while I got ready for work, the bulletin came on the news, and a plane just hit the World Trade Center. I got that empty feeling in the pit of my gut, and went back to bed.

I felt from this moment on, nothing will ever be the same. The life I was living for the past 49 years was gone. For me, the world has changed overnight.

The immediate response was chaos, emergency crews went to work to save lives. When the dust settled the questions started.

Since that day, America has been on a downward slide ever since.

What happened and why?

The 9/11 blow was an event no one in this country has seen since the civil war.

Not only the loss of life and the destruction of the property, but it also shattered our…

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Jerry Pompilio
Jerry Pompilio

Written by Jerry Pompilio

Jerry Pompilio, Small business survivor. With over 50 years in the service business. At this stage, it’s time to pay it back. To help others survive it too.

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