In my psychology class today, we talked about today. We talked about 9/11 and the devastating psychological effects it had on our nation. When it happened, I was barely two years old. I don't remember it but I can see in the faces and the eyes of my teachers today that they all remember it clearly. It stands out to them like a scar in their memories.
Most everyone in our school dressed in Sunday best to honor the day and remember it. What makes me sad is that as the generations continue to progress, the infamous tragedy of this day will be lost in history. Our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren won't remember this day with as much clarity and pain as we do, and most of us aren't even old enough to recall the events--we only see the aftermath in those older than us.
I know the pain of this day will fade as time goes on--time has a way of dulling things, even the things we think should not be dulled. I think back on Pearl Harbor, a day which is equally, if not more infamous than today, and to me it's just a date. It's just another event I have on a test every year. I know it was horrible, yes, but it doesn't matter as much to me.
It depresses me a little to know that 9/11 will one day be just another date in the history books.
Something that makes me sad, at my school the only place I heard 9/11 mentioned was in seminary. I think it's sad that we didn't remember it.
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