Where There's Light, There's Always Darkness: 9/11

There are those days you remember like the back of your hand: the day your first born was brought into this world, the day you met the love of your life, or like my group of friends, the day you saw your first spirit. They are days you want to hold onto dear for the rest of your lives. And then they are the days you want to forget. This is a day I think everyone who has a heart would want to forget.

September 11th, 2001 started out as a normal day for me. I was still in school, at the age of 13, and I was in French class. I don't remember the details before the announcement was made, but I remember a lot of what happened after the announcement. The principal came in, whispered in the teacher's ear, and you could tell something was up. There was going to be no insulting our intelligences either as she started heading to the left towards the television as she said, "Class, the Twin Towers in New York City are under attack." She went to the TV, turned it onto the news, and the first images I saw of the attacks were of this tower of smoke. It looked like something from a movie, and at first we wish it was.

The faculty members didn't bother keeping their words of anger, sorrow, and vengeance under a radar. Emotions were high all day and even to this day they still are because what happened that day was so unreal. Previous to 9/11 America seemed virtually solid, but where there's light, there is always darkness. It was not a normal day at school and as much as I can admit I didn't like most of my days at school, I'd take any bad day over this one. I believe we all would give something to take it back, because when this day happened, I'm sure we all felt powerless. Like our very lives were in jeopardy and when those towers crumbled, we may very well crumbled with it. But what's happening now at Ground Zero? They are building it back up.

Tomorrow, Sunday, will be a day to remember. It's been a decade since September 11th and it will be decades more before we will ever forget. To the brave souls who put their own lives on the line to save another's they did not know...I salute you. To those who lost their lives on that day, we will remember you.

And to those who decieved us on that unfateful day, remember, we don't cry tears, we shed bullets. God forgives, we don't.