We Will Never Forget

As soon as I woke up this morning and realized what day it was, my mind was filled with emotions. On 9/11/01, I was on my mission in North Carolina. I had only been there for a little over a month, and I definitely still felt like a fish out of water. Like everyone else, I will definitely never forget where I was when I heard about the events of that day. What remains even more clear in my mind, however, were the emotions of that day and the time after. There was definitely a sense of fear, and a lot of sadness. The thing that will always amaze me is the way we all stood together for a while after it happened. Everyone seemed a little more kind. We didn't worry about the trivial things in life, and didn't let differences of opinion divide us so easily. We were proud of the country we lived in, and thankful for the freedoms it provided. The sadness felt for what was lost that day still is there. To me, I feel just as sad when I think about how over time, we lost some of the unity and patriotism that we gained from that. It is a different kind of sadness, because it isn't something that was taken from us, but something that we just let slip away over time as we allowed petty differences to divide us again. My hope would be that as we remember that day 9 years ago, and remember what we lost, that we also remember the things we gained. If we do that, and recapture the unity we felt then, we will truly me be honoring the lives and sacrifice of those we lost that day.