As I prepare to head to the opening of Awana this evening, I am reminded that none of the children I will work with today were any older than two ten years ago. They don't remember 9/11. They know it happened, but they probably still don't understand what it was.
While those of us who are older still vividly remember the events of the day, it will soon be taught in history classes around the nation if it is not already. Let us never forget, and let us always teach our children why we remember and commemorate this day. A day when our very way of life, our belief system, everything that makes us, us was attacked.
It's been ten years now, and of course I remember that day very clearly. I am reminded of it often throughout daily life.
I also know that while we must never forget it, we must never live IN it. We must continue to move on. We must live as we would have before to the best of our abilities. If we live in fear or worry, no matter what comes next, the men who knocked the towers down have won everything they hoped to. We remember. We teach our children. We take precautions. We work to ensure it does not happen again, but we do not hide from life.
I love my country, I pray for its leaders and for wisdom of those in it, and who live out of it because they're protecting it. I live here without fear because of the men and women who fight for it.
I will never forget.
God bless and see you soon,
Joelle
