Have You Forgotten?
Today marks the 7th anniversary of one of the worst attacks on American soil. The World Trade Center, Pentagon, and small field in Pensylvania became the center of the entire world's focus.
We weren't Republicans or Democrats. We weren't Baptists or Catholics. We weren't black, white, or navy blue. We were Americans.
Every year I seem to tell the same story, so I won't do that right now. But I can still remember the feelings, the smells, and the sounds that I encountered that morning. Alaska was so 'far behind' in the grand scheme of things. While the East Coast woke to the towers burning, Alaska woke to the towers falling on repeat.
And home videos with people screaming profanities and disbelief.
And yet just seven years later we only remember it on one day. If that. President Bush is asking for a moment of silence, but UAA won't be observing it at all today. At least not to my knowledge. How soon we forget, how soon we don't care anymore.
Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
contemplativeWe weren't Republicans or Democrats. We weren't Baptists or Catholics. We weren't black, white, or navy blue. We were Americans.
Every year I seem to tell the same story, so I won't do that right now. But I can still remember the feelings, the smells, and the sounds that I encountered that morning. Alaska was so 'far behind' in the grand scheme of things. While the East Coast woke to the towers burning, Alaska woke to the towers falling on repeat.
And home videos with people screaming profanities and disbelief.
And yet just seven years later we only remember it on one day. If that. President Bush is asking for a moment of silence, but UAA won't be observing it at all today. At least not to my knowledge. How soon we forget, how soon we don't care anymore.
Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
