We Will Remember

I know that I'm not going to be the only person that posts about this today, but I thought that I would anyway. Especially since NY is my home state. I watched the first part of the Path to 9/11 on ABC last night, which was both sad and interesting. It made me feel like this just happened, even though its been 5 years. I was in my junior year of college, and went over to my computer after just waking up. My friend Jill instant messaged me and told me that a plane hit one of the Towers. I couldn't believe it until I turned on my tv. My heart dropped to the floor for a second, and then my phone rang. It was my grandmother in Florida, and she was asking me if I had spoken to my parents, or my sister Christina. I went to my classes that day in a complete daze of shock. I also remember that night my roomate and I couldn't fall asleep b/c we were scared. Then we remembered that we were in the state of Rhode Island, and nothing ever happens there.

I didn't hear from Christina for 3 days. She worked about a block away from the Towers. She ended up coming to visit me that weekend at school and told me her story. It was both crazy and scary. She told me about how she and everyone in her office were trapped in the building, and how once she got out she was seriously running for her life. She then said that she was afraid to go to work again, and how the burning smell was so terrible. My mom apparently called my other sister Laura at school hysterical (my mom never gets emotional unless its about her children) and still to this day refuses to watch anything about it, or talk much about it. Christina lives a few blocks from the Empire State Building and to this day has nightmares and fears that something like that will happen again.


Who knows if we'll ever find Bin Laden or if he's still alive. But what I do know is that we'll remember that day forever. What we were doing, who we were with, maybe even what we were wearing. Hopefully when people from my generation have children they'll never have to see something like that happen. Maybe just maybe the world will be a more peaceful place. All one can do is have hope, faith, and pray.