In Memory
What Once Was
On September 11, 2001, I woke up like it was any other day. Except that CNN was blaring loudly on the television. And two enormously tall buildings were engulfed in flames and plumes of smoke. I didn’t at that moment quite understand the urgency of the situation, and what it would mean for the United States in the coming future. The city of New York went into panic mode, war was declared, and the United States scrambled to prepare for the next terrorist attack.
But no such attack came, and life soon presumed as normal, no where more so than here in Hawaii. So far removed from the panic of the mainland, the attacks became a mere memory, a faint whisper that quickly became lost in the busyness of the day. Today we remember the lives lost.