Most people remember where they were the morning of 9-11-01. I was close to boarding a plane to Russia. I was in a hurry and did not have the television on. My grandfather called saying a plane hit the tower but it didn’t sink in. Imagining a two-seater airplane, I tell him not to worry it’s an accident. When I saw the first images, I knew it was no accident. My heart was broken.
I am thankful for the sacrifices others have made and are making everyday including dying for our freedom. As I watch memorial services today, the pain as if yesterday and tears flowing. America was forever changed by the terrorist attacks but Americans were not. We’ve seen the worst and it brought out the best.
I think about the lives cut short on 9-11-01 and today. The people behind the stories on the nightly news. Parents who had to explain mommy or daddy is not coming home. A fresh face twenty year old killed in Afghanistan a week before his tour is over. Each one helps keep America free.
We will never forget.
