07/19/2026
Do you remember where you were on 9/11? I do. I was in band class in 8th grade. I did not fully understand at the time what had happened that day. But 2 years later, I was standing in a mall in NYC overlooking Ground Zero. And even then, I'm not sure I fully understood.
As an adult, now a volunteer at the Air Force Museum, I have learned the full story. I have met people who were there, I even got to listen to a lecture from a guy who was LITERALLY IN THE ROOM when it happened and he had to monitor the President and everyone else.
Now all these years later, I still find myself crying when the topic comes up. The lives lost. The full cost of human tragedy.
At the museum, until the end of the month is the Flag. With the names and countries of all lost that fateful day.
