Eight years since it happened is hard to believe. Time passes quickly but the memory of this date will be with me as long as I live. Only one other event in my life has had such a lasting impact. That was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when I was in the fourth grade. I think the reaction of the people around me…my parents,teachers and other adults..is what makes me never forget that day. But 9-11 was different. As an adult I could take in what was happening in a different way. It was real but at the same time unbelievable. Something like this, an attack on our country by a foreign enemy, was unimaginable. My sense of protection and safety was shattered. Never again would I believe that we were not in harms way if someone chooses to attack us. I felt for my safety and that of my family like never before. The enemy had come into my house and I was unable to stop them!
Eventually some sense of normalcy returned but there is always the thought in the back of my head that we all must be vigilant, that if it could happen to the 3000 people just going to work as they usually did, it could happen to any of us, anywhere.
On this day there can only be one thought as to what government’s job is…to protect us and our shores from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It seems that a national health-care debate isn’t really that important. We should never take our freedom and safety for granted again…we will never forget…..9-11..
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