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I just posted a thread in Others and the question is "Where were you on 9/11?" and I started remembering how sad I became a few weeks after 9/11 when I realized my childen would not know life before this horrible event.
Our children will never be able to meet their college boyfriend/girlfriend at the gate in the airport and bring them home to meet the parents.
What do you think will change for our childrens generation because of the terrorist attacks that day??
I am in NJ... and the loss here was profound. The WTC was in my day every day, either from across the river or going there to get to work...it was part of our daily lives. To me, it's very sad, that just 7 yrs later, so many have forgotten so much. Forgotten the lives lost, the responders, the UNITY we felt as Americans that day and in those that followed.
My child was only a baby when the event took place. I remember holding her that night and thanking God above that she was too young to understand friends were "missing" too tiny to know the horror that was enveloping us. It gave me comfort.
But she knows now.... she knows because we are in the city and see the city a lot. One day when she was THREE (kids are so much smarter than we give them credit for) she was thumbing through an older photo album with pictures of the skyline with the WTC and wanted to know why those buildings were not there. I merely told her that they took them down. That's all a 3 yr old needed to know. But then, not long after, she said "HOW did they get taken down?" I could tell it was more than curiosity. I said "Some very evil people knocked them down honey." She asked if it was done on purpose - I told her "Yes, it was." Again. Just what they need to know. She did pepper me with questions on a visit to Hoboken, right accross the river one day, when she was 5 so we discussed a little more. She asked if peple were in the building and i told her that they were, and yes, they died. I told her about the very brave men and women who responded that day and how the country was (sadly fleetingly) united as one. I explained that bad things happen, they continue to happen today, and this is why every single day is a precious gift.
I don't know that her life is goign to be changed drastically by it - because she will only know the after effects. She doesn't know the before. And as traumatic as this was, bad things always have, and always will happen. But I think the important thing is - remember. Show some love & respect on this day.... and your children will see that the world can be a very beautiful place despite its flaws.
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