When I woke up this morning it was like any other Sunday. E quietly playing the Wii and M still sleeping. Ten years ago today I was awakened by a phone call.....it was T and he said to me "I am not coming home anytime soon. Turn the TV on and you will see why." I turned it on and saw what he meant. I was pregnant and I held my belly and prayed. I was glued to the TV the rest of they day...week and the weeks after. It was an all consuming activity. My neighbor and I talked on the phone while we watched. Then one day a few weeks after I got up, turned it off and began a different path of life. I was going to be bringing a child into this world. I needed to focus on creating a positive home and world for my sweet child. I would never forget that day or the lives that were lost. The people that were hurting...but I knew that I would one day have to tell my child about what I was doing on that day....and I wanted to say I stood up next to my fellow American and I was not pushed down. I am glad today to say that the images that glued me to the TV have stayed with me. I have become an American with a purpose to show my children that even a world in which GOD has created sometime bad and unforgettable things happen. BUT we can chose to go forward and remember and honor those fellow Americans. So Ten years later I remember. I pray for my President and the Men and women who risk their lives each day to create a nation where we have the freedom to Speak, pray and most of all BELIEVE in GOD.
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| My son held the flag in their school celebration |
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| Ten years later - watching the coverage |
Beautiful Mel.
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