Wednesday, September 11, 2013

9/11

I wasn’t there. I don’t know anyone personally who was there. I didn’t lose anyone on that day.
Like millions of other Americans though, my heart breaks today. 12 years ago today, we were changed forever. We watched in horror as over 3000 people died. Some of them fell from the buildings. Some of them jumped. Some of them were killed in an instant. Most were crushed when the buildings crumbled to the ground. We wept. We didn’t sleep well. We were glued to our TV’s and radios and computers. The sorrow was immense. The loss of all those lives seemed unreal. How could this be? How many people lost someone they loved that day? A brother, a sister, a parent, a spouse, a child. That loss, even though it wasn’t mine directly, still makes me cry.

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