9/11

I don't think this day will ever be the same for those who lived it. I remember waking up and coming downstairs. My dad was watching the Today show and talking to me about the plane hitting the tower. Honestly my 18 year old mind was still waking up and the gravity of what was happening didn't hit me. I've never been to New York and never seen the towers. I humored my dad by watching some of the coverage with him and together we saw the second plane it. Immediately realized it was a commercial air liner and realized this was an act of war. American soil was under attack for the first time in life.  The rest of the day I was comatose in front of the TV from shock and disbelief of what was happening. I realized the national effect and knew this was a start of a war. Not until later when I watched a HBO documentary about a boy who lost his mom in the towers and was too young to understand what happened or that she will never return to him broke my heart and also made me realize how many people are left waiting for a loved one to return that never would. I also thought of how the person lost, left that day not realizing today would be there last. They got dressed and went out never expecting an attack and like the boy in the documentary how many of them never said goodbye or I love you and are still left waiting/hurting. Since then we have lost more lives in our military adding to the void left by 9/11.  Since then I think of those people lost and left waiting but not just on 9/11 but everyday.