September 11, 2001.
That will forever be a day that everyone will remember where they were, what they were doing, and how they found out. 8 years ago but it still stings and feels like just yesterday that it happened. This day will always be a solemn day in our nations history.
Eight years ago today I was nine months pregnant and just three weeks shy of turning 20. I woke up just before 9am and turned on the TV to watch Live with Regis and Kelly. But instead saw Katie Couric on the Today show. I watched the second plane hit the towers. I remember sitting on the sofa completely numb thinking to myself, what am I bringing a baby into this world too? Remember for weeks after 9/11 how supportive and patient people were. The American pride was just overwhelming. It really proves how strong of a nation we are, and that we can set aside differences and overcome evil to prevail.
This day we will mourn as a nation but also move forward as a nation. Today always makes me proud to be an American.
*I should have been a speech writer…damn!
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I remember sitting on the sofa completely numb thinking to myself, what am I bringing a baby into this world to?
YES! I recall feeling the same, so scared looking into my child’s eyes. As if that day wasn’t emotional enough, to have gone through it 9 months pregnant? Wow.
The American pride really was overwhelming. I remember how we all stuck together as a nation and were ready to make sure it never happened again. I remember how proud everyone was to be an American. It was a very impactful moment in time.
What a great post, and I agree, we’ll always remember where we were on Sept. 11. I do and I’m not American.
We should all carry the pride we felt at that time in our hearts forever! When I heard the news, I thought it was a joke. A horrible joke. I was on my way to the WIC office to bring them my daughter’s death certificate who died 1 week before 9/11. I was already a zombie and my whole heart shattered watching that second plane hit.
I still wonder what I’m doing bring children into the world. My only wish is that we all showed a little more of that pride every day of the year.
I did the same thing with the tv. My son was 3 months old. Postpartum depression was a bitch, and 9/11 certainly didn’t help. I wonder about all the kids born that year and the year following. I wonder how their feelings about that day will be shaped as they grow up. I know we talk about it at home because deployments, and talks of deployments are so prevalent for us.
I remember thinking, “Am I going to be around long enough to have a baby? What if this is the start of World War III? What if someone hits ‘the button’?”
That day was awful. The carnage, the horror, the fear and not knowing…
But as Toby Keith says “We’ll put a boot in your ass cause that’s the American way!”
Will we ever feel as safe again as a nation, as citizens of the U.S. as we did on September 10, 2001?