Patriot Day 2024

 

         It is amazing that we really cannot forget that day twenty-three years ago. My son and I lived in Tucson, Arizona. It was a Tuesday, and he was supposed to go to school that day. He woke up that morning with a fever out of the blue, so I kept him home with me. I had no idea the world was going to go crazy that day. 

          I noticed it was very quiet outside. Normally there would be a lot of traffic noise and just life in general, but that day it was silent. I turned on the news to hear about the terrorist attacks. It was unfathomable that something like that had happened in America. We had thought we were safe here. Bad stuff like that happened in small countries, not the United States of America. I think that is what shocked so many people. The death toll was unimaginable, but for it to have happened on American soil, was terrifying.  People were afraid to go anywhere. All forms of transportation were shut down. The country was on high alert. America never was the same again.