9/11

So often I seem to forget about this event. September 11, 2001. It started out a normal day. The sun was out, men and women were headed off to work, children getting on the bus to head to school. Just an average day in New York City. The day that started out normal, ended in tragedy for our nation. On this day, over 2,600 were taken from us. Mothers were taken from little children and men and women lost the love of their life. It's hard to imagine the loss that so many people faced. The fact that just 19 people could shake the very foundation that so many people stood on. 19 people could take thousands of lives. 19 people could change one's life forever. Those 19 people gave up their own lives to fulfill this evil deed. It makes me wonder what their justification was. Were they thinking that it was for their better? Was it that God was calling them to deminish our government? What was God's plan for all this? I find it rather ironic that this one event that was meant to damage our nation ultimately united our nation in a way never before. I think it helped everyone realize that we needed eachother and we needed to support one another. I was only in first grade when this event occured, yet I remember coming home and watching it on the television. My whole family sat in front of the tv that day. Just staring, in shock of what had just happened. It made me think, if we, elementary school kids, were feeling this much remorse, imagine how many lives are being torn apart. Imagine how many families were watching their loved ones burn, or jumping off the top of a 1300 foot building. How many people had to watch the building, which their mother, father, husband, wife was in, collapse, All the while they could do nothing about it. I can't even get a glimpse of the pain that so many experienced on that day. What started out as a completely normal September morning, ended as a day nobody could have ever foresaw.