Remain Changed.

I told my story of where I was, how I felt, and even how I was able to see it first hand here .
The news has been reliving the day as though it were yesterday. Sometimes it seems like it was.
The other night, I decided to check out the documentary Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup. You can read up on it here, if you'd like, but watching it might be worth your hour and a half. While I am not really a huge conspiracy theorist, I do like to watch those types of things, so I don't become a naive person who just accepts any explanation given for a situation. That is my nature, to be trusting and just believe people. I think that can be good and bad, and that knowing (thyself) is half the battle. While I would never say that my belief system has been changed by this documentary, my eyebrows were raised. There were some unanswered questions. Some things that did not make sense.
But I was in Manhattan for the purpose of work with victims and their families less than three weeks after the attacks. I not only saw and smelled the acrid burning rubble first hand, but I saw the eyes of those in grief and mourning across my Salvation Army assistance table, begging for help. I saw the walls plastered with missing persons posters. I saw people wearing sandwich boards, with any hope they had turning to dread each day that passed. Though I admittedly have a terrible memory- but these ones were burned in, impossible to forget. At 21, though young and green, I was changed.
And that, I think, is the bottom line. No matter what the facts or unknowns are- we all were changed. Our spirits, our outlook, our way of loving and appreciating others, and our level of thankfulness and our freedom- changed.
So, let's keep remembering, so we can remain changed.