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September 11. That is all you need to say and everyone knows
what you are talking about.
That day when the world changed and many lives were thrown
upside down and would never be the same.
Before 2001, that day was just like any other day. It is the birthday for singer Harry Connick Jr. and the first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis was ran on that day back in 1903.
It was only in 2001 that everything became different.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on December 18,
2001 allowing former President George W. Bush to designate
September 11 be known as Partriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance. It has been shortened to just "Patriot Day".
Now every morning on that September 11, we think of where we
were when we saw the first planes hit then watched as the towers
fell.
I remember all of it. Even though I was in the sixth grade and in school at the time, our televisions still turned on and I stayed inside during recess and watched the second tower get hit.
I had no idea what it all meant. I was confused and thought it was all fake.
One thing I will always remember was when I got home and was
watching the nightly news with my parents and saw Peter Jennings, and he was crying.
A broadcaster. Crying. On live television. Somehow watching him let all his emotions come out I knew that this was not good and everything was different.
September 11 will never be just an ordinary day. It will never be just a day the in second week of September. It will be a day where nearly 3,000 people died as the world watched someone try to break our American spirit.
So join me in remembering all the people lost on that faithful day in 2001 where they may have crumbled our buildings but they did not crush our spirit.