Never Forgotten

We'll start with yesterday.
It was so much fun! Colleen and I drove down to Fortville, where she lives, and hung at her house for a while. It was fun to hang with her again, and it was nice to see her mom again.
Then came the concert. Blink 182 was headlining, and My Chemical Romance played before them. I know all of four MCR songs, and they played them all :D Unfortunately, I forgot my camera :[
Blink 182 is one of my favorite bands, so it was nothing short of amazing to be able to see them live. They're one of Colleen's favorites too, so we were singing along with all the songs. It was so much fun!
And so loud. At the end of the concert, I could feel my voice rapidly disappearing so I wasn't expecting to be able to talk at all today. Considering that, I was rather surprised when I was totally fine today. My guess was thet the smoke destroyed my voice last night, so once I got to the fresh air I was ok again.
Ten years ago today, I was in fourth grade. Mr Gowler turned on the radio in the room and that's how we learned about the attacks. The most I remember from that day was a lasting profound sense of confusion. When we first heard the radio, I was confused as to what was going on - it was hard to understand in the classroom. Then, when I understood, I was confused as to why. I'd never known war - unfortunately now it's pretty much all I have known. I know that My dad had been flying, so I was scared for him. Then they showed the video of people jumping out of the buildings, and that scared me too. My sense of curiosity was clashing with that fear, though, because I wanted to know all about what had happened so I kept watching what they were showing.
And that's all I really remember from that day. My mom has told stories about how she hadn't sent lunch with me and my brother so we got to get out of the school. She's also told how my brother asked her to turn off the news after a while because they just kept showing everything on repeat. My dad has told stories about how the people on the plane were claiming that the military was shooting down any planes still in the sky and that a million people had died.
The main thing I remember was wanting to know how someone could do this - to hurt so many innocent people.
Today, I played violin with Amanda in church - we had a hymn filled service because there wouldn't've been enough people for a praise band (by the way, I didn't know that America the Beautiful was a hymn...). After service and supper, five of us went to an Interfaith Rememberance Service in Lafayette. That was really neat, to see everyone coming together like that, but one thing that really sticks with me is what the Islamic speaker said. He was talking about the religious fanatics, and he said that there is no religion where it preaches to kill even one innocent person. Another woman was quoting the Bahá'i founder and said that anyone who claims to be religious through terror is not Godly - he is in the religion of terror.
So yes, that was a pretty cool thing to go see. And now we go back to our daily lives. I have homework due tomorrow so I need to pack my lunch to stay on campus to work on it. And then my mom is going to be here this Friday! :D :D
This Sunday (a week from today) is the Lafayette Hunger Hike. It's a 2 mile walk or 5k run and is to raise money for the area food banks and pantries. I'm planning on participating, so if you feel inclined to donate in any way shape or form, just let me know. Thanks :]
Peace.
-Carly