Remember 9/11

I Remember

 A Poem By Megan Auge

I was only eight years old but I Remember... 

I Remember

Hearing the Cries of Others Around me

I Remember 

Feeling the Fear of those who Understood What was Happening

I Remember

Watching the Tower Collapse on the TV

I Remember 

Watching People trying to Escape

I Remember

The Screams and Cries Coming from those Trying to Escape

I Remember

Watching Firefighters Risk their Life not Knowing if They Would Go Home to Their Family

I Remember

Seeing the Smoke from the Towers

I Remember

The Whispers of others Not Wanting to Talk Loudly Fearing that They Would Scare Us

But What I Remember Most

Is the Fear of Not Knowing What is to Come,

The Pain of Knowing that Many Were Dead,

The Fear that Maybe My Family Would Be Next

From This We will Always Remember

The Patriotism that Came Out of This Horrible Act,

Those Who Stepped Up to Serve and Volunteer For Their Country,

The Acts of Heroism from Others To Save the Lives of their Fallen Brothers and Sisters

But I Remember Most of All 

Is Knowing that One Day I would Serve My Country To Protect My Family, Friends, and Country...

Some May Say I Was too Young To Remember

But I Remember Everything About that Day

Especially the Fear of Not Knowing Whats to Come