September 11, 2001 was different for me...

The terrorist attack was a distraction, honestly, from what was happening to my family. It was something to think talk about so we didn't have to talk about the impending tragedy that was was looming over us personally...


I remember spending my sixteenth birthday in a hospital. Less than a month later we (my sister,brother, and I) were pulled out of school.. I had been watching the national calamity all day during classes... we talked about the attack as a friend of the family drove us to OKC from Ponca City...

Our mom almost died that day... we said goodbye even... that shit was real... probably the most painful thing we'd ever been through or have dealt with since..

Ironically, the September 11 tragedy gave us something to discuss besides our own personal anguish..which was,sadly, somewhat of a relief.

So thats my 9/11 memory