CT Mayhem `07 - `08

Have You Forgotten?

So today is 9/11.  It’s been 6 years since the tragedy occurred and today we are reflecting on it.I remember that I was in second grade when it happened.  We were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance when they announced the crash.  A little while later, they announced another one.  I remember there being an announcement giving us the general idea of there being a plane crash.  There was an assembly explaining what was going on.  When I got home that day, my parents told me that the Twin Towers and Pentagon had been crashed into by airplanes.  I didn’t want to watch the news, I didn’t want to know about it.  I don’t think I really understood what had happened until years later, when I could comprehend the fact that there really were terrorists and that people really didn’t like the United States.  All  my parents told me was that the United States had been attacked and was now under a threat.  What my parents had failed to tell me that day was that my uncle had been working at the Twin Towers only an hour before the first plane had crashed, luckily, he had left and was safe with his family.My thoughts today are similar to what they were six years ago.1500 innocent people lost their lives in one day.

That devastating fact creates enough emotion for a lifetime.