Word of the Week

This weeks word is:  Remembrance

9/11

It was exactly seven years ago today, that September 11th started out as an ordinary day for everyone in New York City. Adults went to work, children went to school. It was a completely normal day. Within a split second, the day that had started out calm and happy, plunged into a chaotic and sorrowful day for the entire country. It was heard around the country, that planes had hit the twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virigina, and a rural field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nineteen al-Qaeda extremists hijacked four commerical air planes, and redirected them into four major buildings in the United States. Two in the World Trade Center, one in the side of the Pentagon, and one directed toward the White House, but brave passangers and the flight crew attempted to take control of the plane, and it crashed in a field in Shanksville. The death toll by the end of the day almost three thousand, excluding the nineteen hijackers. America never was the same after that. Strict airplane and bank policies to in affect, and it was just scary to get on that plane. Seven years following the attacks, Ground Zero is completely clear of debris. A memorial was taken in affect days after the attacks. Two lights shine up in the night sky, resemble the twin towers lost that fateful day. A memorial was opened today in front of the Pentgon, which consists of 184 benches facing the Pentagon, which shows the people lost that day. A temporary memorial was donated from the New York Fire Deparment. It is a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center and mounted a top a platform shaped like the Pentagon. It was installed outside of the firehouse on August 25, 2008.
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Even years after the attacks, America still remembers those two hours of despair before the towers fell, the anthrax mailings a week after, and the three thousand lives lost to the attacks. One question circles around in the heads of many people. “Why did they do this to us?” But, for sure, this dark moment in American history will be circling in the text books for years and years to come.
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“Today, we gather to be reassured that God hears the lamenting and bitter weeping of Mother America because so many of her children are no more. Let us now seek that assurance in prayer for the healing of our grief stricken hearts, for the souls and sacred memory of those who have been lost. Let us also pray for divine wisdom as our leaders consider the necessary actions for national security, wisdom of the grace of God that as we act, we not become the evil we deplore.”
- Rev. Nathan Baxter, Dean of Washington National Cathedral

Post by:

Rachell Jennings

Update.

Yeah Yeah, I know I haven’t posted for a while… I’ve been busy with school and all.