9/11
Sorry but it is a worthy subject. There are many things that struck me that day - my mother calling me because she knew my husband was out of the country and was worried he was on a plane, my first viewing on the tv when I fell to my knees (sounds dramatic but that's how hard it struck me), being worried sick all day for my husband's cousins who worked in and around the Twin Towers (all got out safely but a friend of my husband's from high school's pregnant sister-in-law did not) and one school memory. My younger son was going to Whittier and I woke him up to trying to explain what happened and why it might change his day at school. I didn't show him the footage. Our principal at the time was Greg Imel, now at Bailey-Gatzert, who is one of our best principals. I got my son to school and noticed the flag was not a half-mast. I saw my son off and went to Greg and demanded he put the flag at half-mast. He said he hadn't hear from Central. I was...