Where were you that September day...

I am making a special blog post in honor of September 11.Since today is the 10th anniversary. It's weird to think when this event happened that I was in 3rd grade. Many of my family members weren't born yet and many major events in my life hadn't happened yet. On that day we were watching a movie with all the 3rd grade classes. The teachers were in the other room watching something and I had to ask them a question so I went in there. I remember reading the t.v. and wondering why it said New York got bombed. Then I saw the plane fly into the towers on the t.v. and figured it out. They weren't meaning the kind of bombing I was thinking of. They then announced over the intercom that school was getting out early. Since my mom was a teacher there I rode home with her. We stopped at the gas station and there were so many cars because everyone was worried that gas prices were going to raise. Everything was crazy. I remember going home and watching what happened on t.v. and my mom explaining everything to me. We heard that a plane flew into the pentagon too and my uncle works there. Immediately we were worried about him and trying to get a hold of anyone who could tell us. My aunt called us later and told us he was fine,he was in a different part of the building at the time. My mind races back to watching all the images of people covered in dirt and thinking about the lives lost and how those families were feeling. I remember that as the week went on there were flags EVERYWHERE and everyone was very patriotic. Never have I seen the country stand so strong together. Now it's ten years later and I am not a 3rd grader, I'm a freshman in college and I can't help but wonder how the country has made it where we are now. The changes that took place in 10 years. My heart aches for the lives lost but I smile at how a country can stand together. When I got on facebook I saw all the statuses about today and I wonder if sometimes we just copy and paste and don't actually mean what we are putting or its just a habit. O this is about September 11 I'm going to copy it. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking anyone who did it. I just what us to mean every word we put on our status. When you look at the statuses know that every single person cares about what happened on that day! I would like for anyone reading this to just stop and take a minute and say a prayer for all the families affected by that day,all the fireman, all the police,the government, the president and our country as a whole. Have a great day!