Today is the tenth anniversary of that tragic day in history. As I sit and listen to the reading of the names of those we lost I think of how much pain their families have gone through and the emotional scars carried by those left behind.
Nearly everyone can recall where they were and what they were doing at the time it happened. I was half a world away in Iwakuni, Japan because my husband was an active duty Marine at the time. I was winding down at the end of a long day by watching the Today show as I did each evening. This was one of the few live programs we received in Japan and so I would watch trying to stay in touch with the latest news back in the states so home didn't feel quite so far away. Little did I know that that night I would witness the carnage as it unfolded. I sat and watched dumbfounded and eventually realized how this would affect my husband and all of the other military families.
Fast forward ten years later, our servicemembers are still fighting these terrorists to keep our country safe.
9/11 was a very sad day, as you put it, I very much remember that day with a very descriptive image. I had just begun high school and I was sitting in class, and one of the other teachers from another classroom came into our room and whispered something into my teachers ear, she gasp for air and then turn on the only t.v. we had in the room and we watched over and over as they showed the two planes hitting the two towers. I didn't know the extent of such a disaster at the time, but I do now. Great work, pretty blog site, and I wish you the very best in class. One last thing, I know you are glad to be home.
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