Ten years later... ten long years later.
It seems odd that we only remember so many things from our childhood. Theres one day I will always remember and never forget.
I was five, and going to half day kindergarden at the time. In the morning, I was doing my normal routine of flipping through the tv channels in my room. I came to a news channel, that I normally skipped because when your five those channels bore you. Only, what I saw didnt bore me. If made wonder. Why were they showing two building burning. I had thought to my self why are they setting those big buildings on fire and why people are running away or jumping off them? Didnt they know they were doing to take them down today of something?
So, I ran down stairs to my mother and I told her. She just looked at me like Madi what are you talking about? I explained that on tv, that channel named after the animal a fox, theres two big building that look alike. There on fire at the top.
My mother then went upstairs and turned on the TV. I heard them say two planes have crashed into the twin towers. I asked if there are people in there mommy. She said yes, softly and that was all. We sat there watching the rest of the newscast.
I didnt have to go to Kindergarden that day. The next my teacher explained it all to me in a way I could understand. How someone could be so mean and kill innocent people. I felt very sad, and still do today. I even cry a little ten years later.
On this day, we mourn the innocent lives lost. Only we also have to stay strong and know were still fighting. This day also symbolizes surviving. Just last May we killed Osama Bin Laden. We are going on and fighting. We have lost alot, but will not let them die for nothing. We have a stronger bond as a country on this day. We will never forget 9/11. Not today, not twenty years later, not fifty, and I hope that in a hundred years they wont foreget either.
Everyone, now and forever, should be proud to be an American. Where they are free, and will always fight to be.
Love, Madi McGuckin.
r.i.p. 9/11 victims... we will never forget.
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