Today is September 11, 2002, America’s Second Day of Infamy. I truly hope everyone had a healthy and peaceful day. My heart and thoughts go out to those who lost loved ones. I spent the day thinking about my wife, this is a day where you don’t want to be away from your family, it is especially difficult when you a required to be 500 miles apart in graduate school.

I feel the outpouring of emotions by people worldwide is a wonderful thing. In some instances last year’s events showed us that humanity is still alive, but it also showed us that there are people out there who only care about their own points of view, humanity be damned!

I made a conscious effort not to watch television today. I have also seen quite a few rants online today about how people are choosing not to watch television today because they don’t need to be reminded … because they will never forget. I too agree with this reasoning, I don’t need to be reminded of what happened one year ago. There are very few days in my life where you can ask me “What were you doing one year ago?” But I know exactly what I was doing one year ago. On September 11, 2011 you can ask me what I was doing at 8:47am ten years ago and I will recall it like it was yesterday.

Although, I will not be watching television today I hope the networks are considerate to the families that lost loved ones. It is in their memories, after all, that these events are taking place. I, too, hope that they don’t show the towers falling every 30 seconds like they did in the weeks following 9/11. Again, that is an image that I will never forget.

I have visited a few websites today that have had various remembrances and memorials. I felt a knot form in my stomach when I went to Yahoo’s website, those eerie grey and black colors gave me chills. It was something that I had not expected, especially when I was expecting its cheery yellow colors. I also commend all of the websites that decided not to run advertisements today, it just doesn’t seem right.

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