CE: A Moment in History for Many....a Realization for Me.

      I can 100% relate to this man in the video. He talks about 9/11 completely changing his career because of that one terrorist attack on the United States. I would not be as drastic as to change my career but I wished I was older when 9/11 happened. I was 7 years old and I did not really grasp or understand the idea of terrorism and thousands of people dying all in one tragedy. If I was in high school during 9/11 I would have caught the first bus to New York City. I would have helped cleared out rubble, searched for people, or even feed the men and women working to clear out the mess.
      September 11th had such a huge effect on me. I remember I woke up around 5am that morning to say goodbye to my mother before she went to work (a Lieutenant in the San Francisco Fire Department). She laid me back down on the couch, turned on the television,  and left for work quickly so I could fall back to sleep. I remember seeing a burning building on the TV and saying "Mommy could put out that fire." When I got to school that morning, my second grade teacher had the same "fire" on and I started to realize it was more then just one little fire. On my walk home from school that day, I asked my dad why he looked so upset, he stated: " A lot of innocent people died today because of some mean people."
     I was very fortunate this year to visit the 9/11 memorial. The whole memorial was overwhelming. I view 9/11 in the eyes of the kids whose moms and dads serving in the New York Fire Department died that day. In the memorial, I came across a fallen firefighters uniform. I immediately broke down into tears because it brought back all the memories of me worrying about my mom going to work.
      Now that I am older, I realize that mom will be safe and there is a one and a million chance that my mom wont come home the next day. But the scary thing is....there still is that chance. My mom works at the San Francisco Airport as a firefighter. SFO is a major airport in which millions of people travel through. I pray and thank God that we have men and women fighting to keep my mother safe, so she has less of a chance to walk into such an extreme danger zone.