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| 2003-09-11/8:12 p.m. Two years ago I spent September 11th in the company of my family. I didn't leave my house after I got home from school. I just stared at the television in shock, amazement and dread. Last year I went to work, watched people walk into church for a memorial service that I didn't go to. Then I went home to my family and sat down and cried. This year I haven't thought about it, I have avoided anything that has to do with remebrance. The SGA put up a prayer wall in Humanities Plaza which I couldn't bring myself to look at let alone sit in the Plaza and pray. They had like 4 Memorial services that I refused to take part in, and I made sure that I was in a building where I couldn't hear the chapel bells at 8:46. This must make me sound like a terrible person or something. Maybe I sound like I hadn't been touched by this in some way. That's not it. I knew that if I gave it any thought at all I'd just let it get to be way too much and I knew I'd never make it to any of my classes. I couldn't afford to be like that. So I didn't do anything, and I really don't feel guilty about it b/c I carry this around with me everyday. The only mention of it in any of my classes was when my band director brought it up. His real reason for bringing it up was the fact that today's weather is the same as it was that day two years ago and how it was just last year. Are we going to have to deal with such a beautiful sky every 9/11 and while babies just see the blue we're stuck reliving those terrible hours when we just sat and stared at that terrible black as coal smoke climb from the towers. And imagine that field in Pennslyvania and the Pentagon and wonder if the sky will ever seem the same to us. I don't think that it will. I hope one day that, if I have any, my grandchildren will ask me where were you on 9/11 and I'll actually be able to tell them. I can't tell people now, and I know most of them were in the same situation as I was. As my history professor said "We'll just have to see if it has the same kind of impact that the bombing on Pearl Harbour in 50 years" I love you all and may God Bless You and your families ~Kates Still many just don't understand About the reasons we are free I can't forget the look in his eyes Or the tears he cries As he said these words to me All gave some and some gave all And some stood through for the red, white and blue And some had to fall And if you ever think of me Think of all your liberties and recall Some gave all Now Sandy Kane is no longer here But his words are oh so clear As they echo through out our land For all his friends who gave us all Who stood the ground and took the fall To help their fellow man Love your country and live with pride And don't forget those who died America can't you see -Some Gave All Billy Ray Cyrus
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