I remember overreacting (cause that's what I do best) and thinking WWIII was going to start. The beginning of the end was happening right now. Cause there was no way that the United States wasn't going to react to this and not go after the people who did this.
That was the day I knew I wanted to be a history teacher. I already knew I wanted to be one, but I knew I was going to be one for sure. I wanted to be able to tell the kids who were too young to remember this, or who weren't even born yet, about what happened on 9/11.
That week was just so weird. The following weekend was Sunshine Days. I was on the current Miss Sunnyside Court, and the pageant was Saturday night to crown a new court. There were talks of canceling the pageant. We didn't. We had it. We added a moment of silence. We were also short a Princess. Janae was on the East Coast going to school, and because of the flights being grounded and her parents felt like it was too soon to fly when they were ungrounded, she stayed at school. Almost lost her scholarship because of that too. Lucky, people realized that would just be stupid to pull her scholarship because of the events of 9/11.
Everything had changed. I was worried about what would next year be like. Would there be a war? How could I bring children into this strange new world? What was going to happen?
10 years later, we've started two wars, I have had 5 kids, and I'm still not sure what's going to happen. I hope that we will always remember this day and the lives lost. I hope that we will always remember the heroes of that day. I hope that we will remember the lessons that we have learned from that day, week, months and years since.
I hope that we will always remember. And be United. Because if we are United nothing can bring us down.
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Isn't it amazing how we can all recall exactly where we were and what we were doing? As if it were emblazoned on our minds. I guess it sort of was, right? I still don't have the words to adequately describe what I think and feel about it all. Horrified. Scared. Relieved. Grateful. Thankful. Blessed. There are so many opposites. Really, nothing is adequate. Thank you for posting this.
I was in 10th grade and I had just gotten out of gym and we had to take a bus over to our next class because it was in a separate building and we were on the bus when the driver told us that planes hit the World Trade Center Towers, the rest of the morning was spent watching the news in each class. We were watching when they came down and all the events. It was so surreal. I don't think any of us will ever forget where we were that day. I was scared about WW3 too.
Crazy how much has changed in ten years yet it is still so real and memorable for all of us.
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