Gratitude Project Day 42

Today is a very memorable day in American history... 09-11-2001...

Almost everyone in this country that was alive and old enough to remember can tell you what and where they were when the 1st plane hit... I know I can... 

It's the day that for some life was changed forever... it's a day where over 3000+ people died... it's the day that started weeks and even months of mourning together as a country along with putting most of our differences aside to band together... I know there was some fear occurring with anyone that was of the nationality that hijacked the planes or even similar... I am not blind but it was the closest we seem to ever have gotten to being "together"...and not so divided... 

I am thankful for that ... and at the same time wishing we as a country had that same attitude today instead of being so divided...

Today I will hold on to the hope that my daughter will one day again see America banded together and not so divided... that we will be more concerned about humanity instead of who is right.. that we will be so much more concerned about children, veterans, seniors and the disabled being able to eat, have their medicines, a roof over their heads, not being abused etc., than the bottom dollar...

Today I am thankful that we had the  ability to band together 19 years ago .. even though I would love to see it again but without the destruction this time.... One could hope especially now with a pandemic and the civil unrest occurring that we would be more conducive to banding together ... 

I am thankful for the firefighters, police, civilians that helped when they didn't have to .. I am thankful for American's banding together with strangers to mourn the losses and to being able to recoup afterwards... I will remember those that were lost this day and those that passed afterwards as a result of this day-- suicide, cancer etc.. it was a time of great loss and a time that American's were truly an embodiment of solidarity...

​So today... I am thankful...  

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