9/11 Remembered

[navane]

It's been 10 years since the day I woke up to find a horrific scene unfolding on TV. Confusion, uncertainty, anger. In the hours following, we started to come together as a country, neighbors consoling and helping neighbors. Some one dozen strangers and I stood out on a darkend street corner in Long Beach that evening, in a candlelight vigil, holding signs and U.S. flags, cars honking for us as they passed.

Never did I think that, ten years later, I would be a firefighter myself, waking up on-duty the morning of 9/11, serving and protecting my community. With my badge shrouded, it was my solumn duty to lower the station flag to half staff this morning. Alone and in the darkness of the dawn hour, I remembered my 343 brothers, 60 police officers and the thousands of those who perished. I remembered too, the many service men and women who took up our fight and also put their lives on the line.

The American resolve was not broken then and it is not now. If our enemies thought that they could break the American spirit, they did not know us well enough. May God bless the families of those who lost loved ones and may God bless America.


.....Kelly