September 11th

Today is September 11th. It is the 7th anniversary of the Terrorist attacks in New York city. I just can't believe it has been 7 years already. It seems like yesterday it just happened and our world changed. I have been thinking about that day all through school today. A lot of people wore Red White and Blue, including myself, to remember the attacks. The event is just something that will live with all of us who experienced it. Granted, I was fortunate enough to not see it up close and person... but I was in New York City 2 weeks before it happened. That's right! I even touched the base of Tower One. I was only 10 at the time, and I was afraid to go up top because I was afraid of Heights. I just feel a... I don't know how to explain it... cloud almost overhead because I was there... and to think that 2 weeks after my visit, the world would change... it's just crazy to contemplate. I have looked at pictures from that trip... and some of them are really haunting. There are signs.. believe it or not... signs in the pictures that something is going to happen. Coincidence? Like.. for example.... in one picture on the way home, I am wearing a towel on my head like an Arab. It was a joke obviously and done out of complete innocence. It's just mind boggling that I would do that.. take a picture of it, and 2 weeks later... people of that culture would perform a devastating act. Another example... in one of our pictures.... an airplane is flying between the two buildings. That one makes me shiver for obvious reasons. And another picture that I remember off the top of my head... was.. when we went to Staten Island... there were clouds over the city... and in that picture... the clouds look like the smoke from the towers. It's just crazy... idk. So today was a day of reflection. I'm not sure WHY this year... maybe because I'm more mature and I have watched numerous documentaries on this event, but it's all mind boggling.