Where were you when the events of Sept. 11th went down? I had just pulled out of my condo that morning and was headed up to my parents house to let their dog out since they were out of town. I pulled up to the first light, I was listening to 107.5 The End and I heard the news. It was unbelievable, but I had only heard the first of it – that a plane had hit one of the towers.
As soon as I got to my parents house I went inside and flipped their TV on and sat on their bed watching as the towers fell behind Peter Jennings and we all saw what was happening before he did. It was happening right before our eyes.
That whole week was an addiction to the TV. I remember crying at random during news reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles etc. I remember thinking “How does anyone have kids in a world like this?” 2 month later I was pregnant.
I remember hearing on some news-talk radio earlier that summer that Osama Bin Laden was threatening the U.S. with some terrorist plots. I remember feeling uneasy. Uneasy to the point of asking my dad who this guy was and if he could really do anything to us. My dad’s response: “He sends threats over to us all of the time, nothing will happen”. This was true, he’s been sending threats for years. But a short time later it did happen, I realized that not even our dad’s can really assure us in the world that we live in. A weird thought to have for the first time in my mid-twenties.
I took pictures of all of the flags that were put up in our community. They covered tall buildings downtown and barns in Park City. It was an amazing thing to witness that kind of love for our country in our communities. It was even cooler to see the world come together for the Olympics that following February.
When all of this happened it was so hard to project what our world would look like 5 years down the road.
Here I am 5 years later, with a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a business that hadn’t even been a gleam in my eye yet. Somehow I don’t think that I really thought life would move on in a normal fashion.
And here is our country, divided it seems between our views of the war on terror, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, immigrants and calling out the blame on just about anything we can. I’m not really sure how far we’ve come.
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