Remembering 911 in 2013

Every morning, I relive 911 with MSNBC. I know exactly what I was doing that morning. Remembering it in my mind is like watching film of myself. #thanxMSNBC I remember that my mom thought I was overreacting when I insisted on pulling the children out of school. When I told the woman in the school office why, she said, "So what? What does that have to do with school?" I then said, "In your lifetime or mine, have you ever heard tell of or  known anyone to breach WH or Pentagon security?" We stood in silence looking at each other, as she was thinking about it. A worried look came over her face. We both thought the same thing: This is the end. The 300 year old experiment is over. We have gone too far and angered the Father and it is over. Our life as we have known it, is over. We have been overtaken by the enemy. The woman furiously dialed the school where her own children learned - near a nuclear reactor in another town. In retrospect, my mother was right, I overreacted but who knew then? I figured if we were to die, we would die together. My now 15-year-old son repeated those words to me yesterday as he reminded me today was 911. That day scarred my children and I forever. I know my story is diminished simply because I'm black and blacks aren't supposed to be patriotic/alive/people in some folk's convoluted minds but this is my home, America. My everything is here so I take 911 seriously. BTW I actually got my hair done and went to work asking locals their reaction to the attacks. We were all stunned but we struggled on anyway.

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