Reflecting back 10 years ago today, I decided to re-read a journal entry I made on September 11, 2001.
I was 13 years old, just starting a new year of school at Hillcrest Jr. High.
I wrote:
"Today has been so scary."
"I went to Jazz Band then I went upstairs and everyone was asking me if I had heard about the News. I told them 'no' and they told me 3 planes were highjacked, 2 hit each tower of the World Trade Center, the other hit the Pentigon. I kept hearing more and more about it through-out the school day."
"When I got home I watched the news. (I also watched it 3rd period English, with Mr. Miller). I learned another plane had also been hyjacked, but it crashed in some woods in Pennsylvania before it hit anything. And now the news is saying that Astgavistan or something like that has been bombed, probably by the US which means there will be a war. I am so scared."
I then bored my soul to that journal; my 13 year-old testimony about prayer and faith and preparedness. It was all I felt I had at the time. I ended the entry: "I know if we have faith, everything will be okay".
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I would have never been able to predict that 10 years later, to the day, I would be living so close to the location of the events of that day. As I watched the "Reading of the Names" this morning, I couldn't believe the number of people killed that were from New Jersey, from cities where I work, go to church, and even the city I now live. It's literally much closer to home now.
So much has changed in the last 10 years, but I think I had a wise moment as a young little lady, in knowing with such conviction (impressive to me now) that in conflict, fear and in the face of the unknown, when faith and prayer might be all we feel we have, that everything really will be okay.
And it is.
3 comments:
Neat to be able to go back and read your journal from that day. And it was close to home for me on that day...I was living in Jersey then. I'll never forget...
Wes and I were talking about the same thing. Living in Manhattan has totally changed our view on everything. It is so different being around people who lived through the horror. Very cool to read your journal.
how neat that you wrote in your journal that day! i doubt i thought to do that so instead i wrote in my journal ten years later. thanks for sharing! (and for not correcting the spelling..astgavistan. haha i love it).
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