A couple of months ago, I watched a late night documentary about 9/11. I was pushed to tears as I watched in horror, as if the event had just happened. I kept thinking "how could anyone be so evil and take lives like it's nothing?" This subject deserves more than just a wall post on Facebook or a banner on an electronic sign outside of a business, or even a blog on some social networking website. On this very day exactly one decade ago, I was a 5th grader at Code Elementary School sitting in my first class at the same time that unbelievable amounts of people were dying. Our teacher turned the TV onto the news. At that moment, I think that I actually remember watching as the second tower was penetrated and then collapsed. Mothers and Fathers lost their sons, daughters. Wives and Husbands became widowed. Children lost parents and siblings. Friends, family, strangers... We were all victims, some more than others. Since then, many documentaries have been created. Some have just been for the simple purpose of information while others have claimed that the entire tragedy was a scandal created by our own government. Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter. What happened cannot be reversed. Those families will never get to see their loved ones alive again- conspiracy or not. But this day, we REMEMBER those who were caught up in a disaster that took their lives with little or no warning. It's a weakening reminder that any of our lives could be snatched from us in a fraction of a second; however, it is also a moment in history that has strengthened us, as a whole and individuals. We all shared in a loss, but gained some as well. We were angered, frightened, hurt, but above all, united. On that day, we became what everyone has called this nation since we gained our independence- The United States of America, and I say that we have never been so united as we were on September 11, 2001. So we go on living our lives, many of us remembering what happened daily. Time waits for no one, so we learn the importance of making our lives worth something, that in return our deaths will mean something too.
One Nation, Under God, Indivisible.
