Don't worry...I'll never forget!!

This is not going to be a very long post because I am swamped with homework, but I wanted to post my thoughts as I sit here and listen to the t.v. playing the live September 11th coverage which typing my homework. 

So, I was in third grade when the attacks happened.... I wasn't really allowed to watch what was going on like the older kids got to while at school. But I remember sitting on the bus and wondering what had happened. Why had the teachers looked so scared? Why were the bigger kids talking about a burning building? We hadn't had a fire drill... Where was this big building that was attacked? Why were there people jumping out of it and trying to get out? Couldn't they just go down the stairs??

As a third grader, I was very ignorant of what was going on. I still remember standing in the kitchen with dad and I had just gotten a glass of mom's famous lemonade out of the fridge and I remember him saying that there had been a series of plane crashes. 

Now, I had ridden in an airplane a few times so I knew that sometimes things went wrong and that they had to land. But I could tell this was different....daddy was talking about bad people that weren't supposed to fly the planes took them and hit them into buildings. And he said one hit the Pentagon...now as a child I had no clue that was!! But I could tell this was something bad. 

These buildings that had been built to survive were now falling down because someone was attacking our country. Mom had told me there was a TV show on about how these big tall skyscrapers were safe and even though they were high in the air they were built to withstand an accident. That TV program aired just days before this....

And yet this is all that remained!!

I just keep trying to wrap my brain around this....what prompts people to hate...It's human nature ever since sin entered into this world but seriously. Why?! Maybe it's just so surreal because we hear about battles and attacks in our history books but nothing like this has ever happened in our own country. The terrorists entered into our land and got us on our own territory. Why?! The people on those planes....they unknowingly entered that terminal and walked down the ramp and entered their planes those days with no inkling of the fact that September 11, 2001 was their last day. The people in the towers and in the pentagon and the thousand of responders got up that morning and had **just started** their day. They never knew it would be their last....
And after that day and the days to follow, our nation mourned...mourned for the lost, loved, the young, old, and ultimately, the innocent. But I also remember just a few years ago, people let Sept 11th come and go without so much as a thought towards what happened...

And now here we are...the ten anniversary. People are mourning yet again. But what I wonder...will this be like the past few years? Will we suddenly put it on the back burner? That day, things changed and it's something that shouldn't be forgotten...but yet people have. Suddenly a decade passed and now it's all people are talking about.....Why can't it be like this every September...

So to all those men, women, and children whose lives will never be the same...I will never forget...you may not be reading this but maybe in your heart you will know. You won't lose hope and will never doubt that at least one person is still mourning with you. The poster I cut out just days after the attack still hanging in my room and it is something that will always live with me....."A Nation Never Forgets"