09.11.2006

Five years later and I still get tears in my eyes. It didn't affect me personally, and yet it did. I am a complete and total news junky since then. I can't even help it. I will never forget waking up every hour or so that night and checking the news to see how many people they had found alive in the rubble. And they didn't find many. It's still so unreal. It's tragic enough to have a loved one die with a sense of privacy surrounding the ordeal. I can not imagine the widows/widowers and how they must feel dealing with this gigantic national tragedy coupled with the fact that they lost their loved one in it. I made a scrapbook back then of things that I thought were amazing about us, as humans. The signs of support, love, patriotism, and prayers. I flipped through it today and was so glad I had journaled and detailed those things. God bless the USA.