9/11 was already a hard day. In 1990 my first son Jonathan died in utero. Today he would be 16 had he survived. I am stunned by the passing of time. Some days it feels like yesterday when my heart shattered into a million pieces and other days it feels like a million years and a million trucks have driven over me.
Ironically, I now have a 9 year old step-daughter who was born on 9/11. Funny how things work out.
I am not surprised at how fast 5 years has past since 9/11/2001.
I do not believe we will ever forget b/c for those of us who have children, my son was 3 1/2 years old and had no clue as to what was happening in our world, and the last year or so he has been very focused on the Twin towers and the WTC. He is trying to understand the world on 9/11 and make sense of what it means to him in the terms of his love of air planes and bad men in the world and BIG strong towers that should never have fallen and lots of people dying and lots of people being sad.
The world will never forget what happened that day because of the children that were too little then to understand but are now trying to understanding what no one can.
What truly frightens me...is that nothing else has happened.
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Erika Lyn Smith
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