Remember 9/11

When 9/11 occurred I was at school, in Marketing class at Western Michigan University. Like when Kennedy was shot during our parents/grandparents generation, our generation will always remember where we were on 9/11 when we first heard the news.

I remembered how much my Mother cried about 9/11. She had just went to New York City for the first time the year prior to everything happening. She went with her girlfriend Sue and they took a ton of pictures of the twin towers. Mom would always get so very sad about major events that would occur in the World or to someone she really admired, like Princess Diana for example. She bought every trinket, book, statute known to mankind for 9/11 to support what had happened and to never forget the fallen heroes. I remember when princess Diana died; in Summer of 97....we were at the lake house and they were having a housewarming party for their new place. She was devastated. Another reason, why honoring my Mom's memory is so important to me because she did such a wonderful job honoring peoples lives that have died, even when they were complete strangers to her.

Tragedies bring families and even a country together. I just wish it didn't take terrible events such as these to bring people together. That's why ever since losing my Mom and Dad, I can't really say it's brought me that much closer to my friends and family because I was already there. I didn't need a tragedy to bring me closer to my Family and Friends, they have always been #1. But I do love talking to my extended family more then I did before and that would just make my parents the most happiest. Their siblings and Fathers meant the world to my parents and that also means, they mean the world to me.

Remember 9/11 and remember to appreciate all that you have in life because it can be taken away so quickly that there is absolutely no chance for goodbye. Through world tragedies and one that hit me so close to home with losing my parents, has brought that statement too close to the reality of my life. And I will never again, leave anything unsaid. I think if you ask anyone I know very closely they would tell you that I love them very much and their relationship means the world to me. That's the way I'd prefer to leave it. Yes, I am certain my parents knew these things but I wish I could have told them one last time! But in a case like this, I will never be satisfied with what I did or did not say as when you love two people so much, you wish you could have said it all.

But, like most people, I never thought it would happen to me. my family. my beautiful parents. my younger brother. or in 9/11's case, my country.