Today — September 11, 2009 — marks eight years since the tragic terrorist attacks that changed our lives forever. I’ve been thinking about something a friend posted this morning on Facebook, “Can we remember something you can never forget?”
To me, never forgetting is passive; we have a memory of the event. But remembering — marking the occasion, reflecting on its significance, honoring those who lost their lives senselessly, revisiting the intense emotions we experienced that day, somehow learning from the shared experience — are all intentional and purposeful acts. Remembering — interrupting our normal activities to mark this date — becomes even more critical as we see a new generation of young people (tomorrow’s adults) who are blessed not to have their own memories but live in a world forever changed by that day.
Yes, today we remember September 11, 2001.
