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9/11 Memories

Today’s midweek motivation is about memories — and I’m sure we all have many when we think about where we were or what we were doing 24 years ago on 9/11.

I remember:

Putting my daughter on the bus just before the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower (8:46 am)
Driving my son to preschool, as I heard my friend Brian Fowler report on the radio that the second plane had crashed into the South Tower (9:03 am)
Racing to pick up both kids as fighter jets took over Cleveland airspace soon after Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field (10:30 am)

Years later, and just before the COVID pandemic hit, I took my daughter Lauren (Kapes) Geuther to see the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. She was too little to remember the day the world changed or the impact it had on so many.

As we stood in the basement of the former towers, looking at the tiled wall where the unidentified remains of those killed in the Towers are housed, Lauren said, “Every kid should have to see this.”

True story.

And I don’t think we’ll ever forget.

As author L.M. Montgomery said, “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

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