I can't believe that is has been 10 years since that day all of us will remember forever. I remember exactly that day as if it were yesterday. My day started just like everyone else's. I got up, went to my college class at Salt Lake Community College and not long into class a girl came in late in tears, she told us what had happened and at the time the Pentagon had just barely been hit. Knowing my brother at the time lived across the freeway from the Pentagon I just up immediately, ran outside to call him to make sure he was ok, because I didn't know exactly what had happened. I couldn't get a hold of him, so I jumped in my car and headed home. While in the car I was listening to KSL radio, and I called my Mom to see if she had heard from my brother Jake. I just remember breaking into tears and saying to my Mom "WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?" My Mom did get in touch with my brother who was at medical school at the time. When she spoke to him she said you could tell he'd been running. They were preparing for mass triage to come to the school. Nobody came.
After getting home I starting watching the news, like everyone else in this country I was glued to the tv. Finally one night we all decided we needed to get out and stop watching the news. I remember we all went down the the Queen Theater and saw The Musketeer. It was a much needed break.
One the most touching moments for me was when President Bush visited ground zero. Someone handed him a bull horn, you can tell he didn't plan on speaking, just observing. But he started speaking and firefighters were yelling, "We can't hear you" and the President yelled this back "I can hear you, The rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." You just knew from that point on we were a different Country.
I will never forget the events of 9/11 and where I was that day. Years from now when I have kids and they watch footage every anniversary they'll ask me where I was, just like I ask my parents when I see footage of JFK assasination where they were.
The sense of patriotism, love, and the unity this country had was amazing. It's sad it took a National Tragedy to bring us all together...even if only for a short time.
Thank you to those who were brave and ran up into those towers to save lives and never came out. Thank you to the brave who ran back into the burning Pentagon to guide people to safety, and thank you to the brave military men and women who still fight for our freedom today to ensure we never suffer another tragedy like this again!!
This is a view of where 10 years ago the Towers once stood.
