Sept 11

I remember my mom shouting at the television, was what woke me up that morning.  I came out to see the towers of the World Trade Center on fire.  They showed footage of the first plane flying in, and then later the second plane just disappearing into the second tower.  It was surreal.  I went to work, and thought how quiet it was, there were no planes flying overhead, and we had no customers at the coffee house where I worked at the time.  We lived in one of the flight paths here in LA, so we hear planes all the time, and by the time I got to work, every plane had been grounded.  It was later in the afternoon, that I saw the rest of the footage.  And it was still surreal, this type of thing didn't happen in the United States.  Now ten years later, I am reminded of the people who put their lives, on the line, for strangers, who showed immense bravery in the wake of terrorist attacks on our soil.  I didn't know anybody who died that day, or even anybody really affiliated with the events that day, but I think those who folks who sacrificed themselves for their fellow citizens, show me what courage looks like, and that many of our problems are not so big after all.  God bless America, and God bless those who went through, and go through a great deal for us so that we can be free.