Five years later

I'm sure all of us remember where we were on 9/11/01. I remember mom saying "I remember I was a junior in high school when JFK was shot and they sent all the kids home".

I remember sitting in a portable building on the Middle School campus watching events unfold on tv. I was with 2 other ladies and all we could do was cry and stare in disbelief. People calling one another on cell phones cause you couldn't call long distance from the school phones. Needless to say...that is when I purchased my first cell phone.

My husband was in downtown Dallas. People were being sent home from work and trying to get out of the city.

I know some people are probably tired of hearing about 9/11, maybe they don't understand. That day changed us and the world.

I remember watching the Republican National Convention in 2004. A man named Zell Miller delivered the key note speech.

Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home. For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
Zell Miller, Republican Convention 2004

It's true...we owe them and their families so much!!!
Take time to enjoy your loved ones and appreciate what God has blessed you with.