Well, it's been a busy few weeks since I last posted - earthquakes, hurricanes, and such. I'll get to all that in my next post.
I was a junior in high school on 9/11. During the three minute break between a double chemistry period, my lab partner and I ran to the biology lab down the hall, which overlooked the Manhattan skyline. Looking back, I've always been a little surprised the faculty let us hang around and watch, but I think everyone was too horrified to do anything. Even if I wanted to, I will never get that image out of my head. The north tower was still standing, and the south tower must have just fallen, although we didn't realize it at the time. (There was an insane amount of smoke, and it never occurred to my friends and I that a building that large could just collapse like that.) Maybe one day I'll find the words to describe what it's like to know you're watching hundreds of people die, but today is not that day.
God Bless America.
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