Do you remember 9/11?

[RINO Tom]

Yep, incredibly sad day.  Keeping it relatively brief, I was in 3rd grade and we saw one of our teachers crying on the walk to music class but had no idea what was going on.  They finally told us around 10:00 am CST, and even kids of that age got how big of a deal this was.  After school, my mom picked me up and was very worried because she hadn't heard from her sister in DC, but she seemed relatively at ease compared to our neighbors from Long Island who had all their family back in NY and some who worked in Manhattan.  It sucked watching them go through that.  Once I saw the videos and stuff that night, it really set in that this was an event that would change how the world worked.

The two positives I remember from that:

1) Our rec league soccer coach (whom I still tailgate with, haha) was the only one who didn't cancel practice that day, and he said something to the effect of "The entire point of terrorism is to scare you into living your life the way the terrorists think you should - and against the way you believe is right.  Well, they're bullies and cowards, and we're not going to let them scare us!"  Haha, we still give him sh|t for that awesome speech to a bunch of elementary school kids.

2) My mom's host family from when she had studied in Germany during high school had been in the US shortly after, and they came to visit.  They brought us American flag beanie babies and some treats and told us about how people had reacted in Germany and how the rest of the world felt our pain and was gonna stand beside us.

If no one has read that article about several people from around the world remembering 9/11, they should look it up.  Very cool.  Also that new video that the college student took from her dorm of the second plane really gives you a feel for how terrifying that attack was.