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SEP­TEM­BER
11, 2011
DECADE

Ten years ago I was 16 years old and still in high school. Ten years ago I was ap­proached out­side of the Vi­sual Media room by a good friend and he told me that some­one had ac­ci­den­tally flown a Cessna into the World Trade Cen­ter. Ten years ago I passed fel­low stu­dents in the halls, some obliv­i­ous and some I caught with tears in their eyes, elbow deep in their lock­ers and grab­bing their car keys.
Ten years ago I heard an an­nounce­ment that a plane had in­deed hit the World Trade Cen­ter. But it wasn't a Cessna.
I re­mem­ber classes being can­celed. Some stu­dents went home. Some stayed. Teach­ers came and went. The prin­ci­pal walked through the halls, worry cross­ing his eyes and his hands wring­ing to­gether like a junkie look­ing for a fix.
I re­mem­ber stand­ing in my high school's empty halls and lis­ten­ing to the tele­vi­sions echo the same thing.
I re­mem­ber talk­ing to stu­dents that had fam­ily in the Trade Cen­ter, their tears stain­ing shirt sleeves and the tops of thighs, hold­ing them and try­ing to calm their hol­low sobs, try­ing to keep them from shak­ing away and onto the floor.
I re­mem­ber dri­ving through town that night and look­ing at all of the bar­ren roads. Some were out­side hold­ing signs. Pass­ing dri­vers would honk and yell "God Bless Amer­ica!" and the sign hold­ers would wave their tiny flags.
The only thing I re­ally re­mem­ber from my sopho­more year of high school was that day. I don't re­mem­ber Thanks­giv­ing or the girl I dated or the mem­o­ries and kisses that we shared. I don't re­mem­ber Christ­mas or my grand­par­ents or my friends and what we did after school.
How strange it is that mem­ory works against us. We rally to­gether and say "Never For­get" and we salute the flag and tear up at the sight of the Twin Tow­ers burn­ing and watch­ing the bod­ies fall from the bro­ken win­dows and see­ing the peo­ple run­ning from the wreck­age, ash and blood coat­ing their skin and eyes. We tell each other that we are stronger than this and it won't stop Amer­ica from pre­vail­ing against its at­tack­ers and those that wish to bring us to our knees.
One day de­fined a decade and will con­tinue to de­fine our lives and our coun­try and the mem­o­ries that we want to re­mem­ber, but can't, be­cause one day sticks out and bleeds on our eyes.
I've been to Ground Zero a few times since the at­tack. I've walked out of the sub­way, di­rectly across from where the Twin Tow­ers used to stand. I've watched the ma­chines and the men clear­ing away de­bris, Amer­i­can flags flap­ping qui­etly in the breeze. I've talked to count­less peo­ple about that one day, try­ing to find out if they are like me, re­call­ing every de­tail about that day.
I could tell you what I was wear­ing that day. I could tell you word for word what was said to me by other peo­ple be­fore we all watched the news and found out for our­selves. I could tell you what color the sky was and what was writ­ten on the white board in front of the Vi­sual Media room. I could tell you what the man stand­ing in front of the restau­rant looked like, all the way down to his cam­ou­flage vest that was dot­ted with pins and his black trucker cap with the yel­low let­ter­ing, old and worn from time. I could tell you that my mom or­dered crab cakes and a salad with blue cheese dress­ing and that she was wear­ing a green tur­tle neck and navy jeans.
I've talked to many peo­ple about that day. Most of them say they re­mem­ber watch­ing the tele­vi­sion. They re­mem­ber see­ing the sec­ond plane hit dur­ing the live feed. They re­mem­ber not being able to con­tact their fam­ily mem­bers that were trapped in­side the tow­ers.
They re­mem­ber and I am de­tached from all of that emo­tion and as I sit here and write this, I can't help but ask my­self if I missed out on the great tragedy that shaped our coun­try into what it is today. If I missed all of the things that re­ally mat­tered only to wal­low in the mean­ing­less things and for­get the im­por­tant things.
It's a ter­ri­ble thing. So I at­tach my­self to the pain of oth­ers. I at­tach my­self to the im­ages that plague oth­ers in their dreams and bring them scream­ing from sleep, cry­ing and hold­ing fast to the pil­low that should be the one they lost.
I didn't re­ally lose any­thing but my heart hurts for those that did. I've seen the tears and the an­guish. I've seen the night­mares and the emo­tion and the loss and the hurt and the pain. I've seen it and I at­tach my­self to that, hop­ing it brings me one step closer to feel­ing some­thing I missed.
I won't for­get that day and I don't want to. I just feel like I'm miss­ing some­thing. Maybe that some­thing is the day that should have been lived by every­one af­fected.
Maybe we're all miss­ing the last ten years that should have been dis­cov­ered through the eyes of those that were lost in the planes and the tow­ers.
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i just saw this and wanted to do it

1. Tell me the truth, what made you start liking the person you like right now? ---  i don't like anyone right now - wow that makes me feel like a bore :/
2. What on your body is hurting or bothering you? ---  my tummy
3. What was your last thought before going to bed last night? --- i cant remember...
4. What are you listening right now? ---  christina grimmie www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXO7y…
5. Do you like meeting new people? --- kiind of
6. Where do you think your best friend is right now? --- school
7. Have you kissed anybody in the last 5 days? --- no
8. Sex on the first date? --- no
9. Kiss on the first date? --- yeh
10. Is there one person you want to be with right now? --- tonnes of people
11. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life? --- life is hard
12. Is there something you would like to say to someone? --- nothing comes to mind
13. What are three things you did today? got dressed, wrote in my book, helped my mum make cupcakes
14. Would you rather sleep at a friend's or have them over? --- have them come over
15. What is your favorite kind of gum? --- trident
16. Are you friends with any of your ex boyfriends/ girlfriends? --- no
17. Have you ever felt like you weren't good enough? --- yeah
18. Ever liked someone you thought you didn't stand a chance with? --- yes
19. Does anyone have strong feelings for you? --- idk
20. Are you slowly drifting away from someone? --- i hope not ;(
21. Have you ever wasted your time on someone? --- yep
22. Can you do the alphabet in sign language? --- i used to be able to
23. How have you felt today? --- awesome! xP
24. You receive $60 without any reason, what do you spend it on? clothes and itunes ;D
25. Are you afraid of falling in love? --- no
26. Ever liked someone older than you? --- yeh
27. Would you rather have Starbucks or Jamba Juice right now? --- starbucks, idk what that other thing is
28. Why aren't you in 'love' with your last ex anymore? --- we're too different
29. How late did you stay up last night and why? --- 10 o clock cos i need my sleep dammit!
30. When was the last time you talked to one of your best friends? yesterday
31. What were you doing an hour ago? --- listening to the complete guide to everything
32. What are you looking forward to in the next month? ---  settling into my new house! xD
33. Are you wearing jeans right now? --- no
34. Are you a patient person? --- no
35. Do you think you can last in a relationship for 3 months? --- maybe, yeh. idk
36. Favorite color? --- black and blue
37. Did you have a dream last night? --- yeh but i cant remember it now
38. Are you wearing jeans, shorts, sweatpants, or pajama pants? --- no
39. If someone could be cuddling you right now, who would you want it to be? --- my friends
40. Has anyone ever told you that you have pretty eyes? yeah it made me feel speshul

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