I can honestly (with some degree of shame) say that in 11 years, I have never once shed a tear listening to any of the 9/11 coverage or stories. I have never wept listening to someone's story from that day.
Until today.
It isn't that I'm not a patriotic person (though I am not highly patriotic).
It isn't that I am cold and unfeeling (though in certain scenarios we all know that I am!).
I think that it is easy for those of us who are far away from the scenario, who did not lose anyone we knew, to be just that...far away. It was an awful time for our nation. Yes, of course I felt sadness because of the lives lost and those left to carry on without their loved ones. It was a tragic moment in our nation's history.
Until today.
It isn't that I'm not a patriotic person (though I am not highly patriotic).
It isn't that I am cold and unfeeling (though in certain scenarios we all know that I am!).
I think that it is easy for those of us who are far away from the scenario, who did not lose anyone we knew, to be just that...far away. It was an awful time for our nation. Yes, of course I felt sadness because of the lives lost and those left to carry on without their loved ones. It was a tragic moment in our nation's history.
