10 Years Later

So...I was watching my Sunday line up of prime-time shows, killing time before Keith returns from a business trip and just as Brody was about to tell Nora (Brothers & Sisters) some terribly important tidbit from their past, the news interrupted my program to announce that Osama bin Laden is DEAD. U.S. military and intelligence shot and killed bin Laden in a compound/mansion in Pakistan. The president spoke to the American people about thirty minutes after the news interrupted to give us the information. This November would have been ten years since 9/11 and I know that those directly affected with a loss of their loved one has a sense of justice this evening. It makes me feel very proud to be a citizen in the United States of America.

When people speak about 9/11, it's one of those events where you remember exactly where you were that morning upon learning the complete devastation that took so many lives. Everyone remembers. I was up with Delaney first thing in the morning. She was 10 months old and was up throughout the night and most certainly early morning. I was drinking a cup of coffee and watching the news. Josh was asleep in our room. The first plane struck the World Trade Center and I went in to wake Josh up to come and watch, since it was still unclear what happened/why it happened/was it an accident. We watched the news for the next three days. Fast forward ten years and interesting to see the then, then and the now, now. Where I am in my life now versus unhappily married then. Just so wild how much things change.