Where were you?

Where were you? Do you remember what you were doing? Those are the questions that everyone asks on September 11. This year marks the 10^th anniversary when terrorists attack this country. So where was I? What was I doing?

I was in boot camp. It was our 1^st or 2^nd week of training, the worst part of it they say. I remember we were going about things normally in our barracks when we were told to form up outside.  Then we were told that the United States was under attack. We were told to look around the base for anything that didn’t look normal, anything that might resemble a bomb, etc. We then had to open and look into every locker in the barracks. Then we went about the rest of our training, not hearing news reports or seeing any papers. The Chaplain would come by on Sunday afternoons and give us a tiny update but I don’t think none of us had any idea how bad it truly was.

That was till our on base liberty, when we finally hit the mark in our training (6wks) to have free time to call home, read the paper, but still no TV. I remember feeling confused and it just didn’t seem real. I felt like it was something from a high school history class that we were reading about. It’s a weird feeling to know that this horrible terrible tragedy happened and we were not living it. We were in boot camp so even though we were told, we didn’t live it like everyone else. Now 10yrs later I still struggle with the reality of something like that happening. I know it happened, I see the aftermath of what happened, but it still doesn’t seem real. We just weren’t allowed to think about it and live it like the rest of the country was. So that’s where I was and what I was doing terrible tragic day in our history.    

My heart and prayers goes out to those families and friends who lost loved ones in the attacks on NYC, the Pentagon, and the plane crash in PA. I just couldn’t imagine dealing with a loss in such a tragic way. I know time does not heal these wounds but I truly hope and pray that those who went through such pain on that day have found any peace that they may need.