Today is 9-11 + 7. The seventh anniversary of the day everything changed. The planes hit the towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA. The towers fell, the Pentagon crumbled, and in Shanksville there was only a smoldering hole left in the Earth. My world changed. Our world changed. What's more is the worlds of those who lost people changed. Rather than this being a day of national mourning for them, it's a day of what I can only imagine is intense personal pain. Rather than the date of when a loved one left this Earth forever slowly slipping away from memory it is, and will likely be, forever announced annually.
That has to be a pain that only a select few can relate to. Like the Kennedy and King families. Like the families who lost someone on Dec. 7, 1941.
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