We Will Never Forget

I am sure that everyone else remembers where they were 10 years ago when they heard or saw the Planes fly into the World Trade Center. I am like everyone else!

10 Years ago I had just graduated from High School and moved to Cedar City to go to Southern Utah University with some of my high school friends. I had really only been there for 3 or so weeks and was HOME SICK! It was getting better but I missed my family and the comfort that I had known for the last 18 years.

My roommate (Lexi) and I had early morning jobs cleaning classrooms in one of the buildings on Campus from 6-8am. Most mornings we got done super early because we were fast. It was a Tuesday we were really fast that day because we wanted to go back to bed. Neither of us had classes until later on in the day. We left the campus at about 6:50 that morning and driving back to our apartment on the radio we heard someone say that a plane had just crashed into one of the World Trade Tower Buildings. I was just like...Okay. Lexi ran inside and turned on the TV just in time for us to see the 2nd plane hitting the other WTC Building. I was in shock. I didn't know what to think or how to feel or how to move on from this. I was ready to pack up all my belongings and move back home that very minute. I missed my family, I felt sad, and alone, and scared! All of us roommates were glued to the TV that day. I didn't go to my Math class, I don't know if anyone went that day. I was too scared to leave the apartment.

So much has changed in 10 years. I am married, have 2 babies. I have siblings that are married now with babies. I am the only one living in Utah from my family and I still miss them. But life also moves on, we grow, experience, live, love from these moments that hurt us. We come together as people, neighbors, families, a nation!

I will never forget...Where I was that day when I heard the news. I will never forget...The lives that were taken. I will never forget...Those who helped. I will never forget...The courage our men and women have now fighting for our freedoms! I will never forget!

IN MEMORY OF ALL WE LOST, THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11- STATISTICS: Times of impact: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. 2819 dead from 115 different nations. 343 Fireman/paramedics, 23 NYPD, 37 Port Authority officers.