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How I remember Today

Sep 11, 2017 by NegaSub
This summer, I met up with one of my best friends from grade school at a bar and we just talked the entire time. Time kept passing and we kept talking, and somehow, this day came up. We both shared our memories from that morning. It was a scary morning for my family for sure, as my dad worked in the city. I didn't live far from the city, so i woke up to a loud noise. I went into my mom's room and saw her watching TV with just utter despair in her face. We went to school but got sent home in like an hour. The only real words I remember from that day were words my mom told me when I walked in and ask what happened. "Some very bad people attacked us." As the years went on my eyes opened up to the more severe actions people took that day and the true devastation NYC and the Pentagon faced. In high school, my teacher showed us videos of the unthinkable actions some people took for either a quicker death or to even escape death itself. This day is just meant to be remembered as one full of darkness.

Clouded by that darkness are the heroes who saved that one innocent bystander, or even volunteered to just run in and help people out. Even if someone you knew or loved wasn't directly effected, our entire country was, that was a day it didn't matter who you were. America was dealt a blow, and people stepped up. Where is that same camaraderie now?

So when I remember 9/11, I remember the luck I had that no one I knew was affected, and yet mourn and respect those who were. I feel sadness knowing the death that was surrounding that day, yet happiness knowing people came together for one thing, America. 16 years later, while that noise will never leave my mind or my ears, the true meaning of that day will always cancel it out and bring forth something beautiful as we remember it more and more.

I remember, do you?

#survivor

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