"The Children of 9-11"

While shopping at Wal-Mart the other week I came across People Magazine that featured a special article on 9-11 titled, “The Children of 9-11”. Within this article it discussed a group of mothers and children who had lost their husbands/fathers on that tragic day. Now ten years later, this article talks about what it has been like for them and the struggles they’ve had to overcome through that process. Each page of this article displayed a different family and gives the readers a short bio of that loved one they lost. It also includes their thoughts on the event now and their feelings of the heartbreaking events anniversary. On the last page it showed the mothers and their children all photographed together, along with quotes of how they wished to remember what they lost.

I personally enjoyed reading through this article. It gave me a bigger perspective on 9-11. It amazes me that after all these years these mothers have stood strong for their children as they’ve had to watch them grow up without their fathers. Knowing and seeing what this unforgettable day did to all of America, I think that these mothers have to be one of the strongest groups of people. I couldn’t imagine being pregnant and having my husband killed. So many things left unsaid, so many more memories to make, the birth, graduation, and marriage of the unborn child missed, and the ultimate thought of, how will I do this? 

Although I am not a mother, or a person that lost someone in 9-11, I fell very deeply for those mothers and their children along with all the families who have lost their loved ones. Waking up one day going about my business like normal and then in an instant my world crumbling to the ground, seems too unreal. I don’t know what it is like to lose a father/mother, brother/sister, son/daughter, uncle/aunt, and I couldn’t ever begin to speak for those who indeed did lose someone important to them. I don’t even know how I would react, what I would say, how I would think, which is what makes these families so unique and amazing. Although they didn’t have the answer either, they managed to stick together and make it through. If the families and the victims of 9-11 aren’t an inspiration to all of America, than I don’t know what is.

 We will never forget 9-11. God Bless.