Never Forget

On the eve of this year's September 11th anniversary, I find myself remembering that morning and things come back to me like it was yesterday. It's still really powerful. So I figured I would write something about how I felt.

I went online looking for a picture to accompany this post. To my shock, when I typed into the Google Images search window "World Trade Center Attack" the first suggestion I got was pictures of "People Jumping." I have to say, without the slightest bit of hyperbole, that makes my stomach sick. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the people trapped in those towers above the fire. For Google's search engine to produce a return like that, it means that "People Jumping" is the thing most Google users are searching for with regard to this subject. And that makes me sick.

Anyway, as I do every year I'll remind everyone that the History Channel is showing "102 Minutes That Changed America" tomorrow night at 9:00 PM EST. It's the story of that day told through the amateur video of people who witnessed the attack. Much of it is taken from a perspective that wasn't necessarily shown on television during the days after the attack. All of it is heartbreaking in its honesty and purity. It's very hard for me to watch every year, and even though I Tivo it each time in case something happens to prevent me from watching, I don't watch it more than once. It's too hard. Anyway, I think everyone should watch it so that we don't forget. We need to remember the heroes of that day, and the heroes of the days after as our country came together to face a "new" enemy.

And since Google kind of pissed me off with the image search results, I'll instead post this graphic that was produced by the folks at GoRuck.