Mike –
Since Dad and I started dreaming of you, long before you were born, we talked a lot about what you wouldn’t grow up knowing about. Silly things like telephones with cords or Blockbuster. Or hours spent at the library researching like we had to do before the internet. You also wouldn’t know life before 9/11.
Both Daddy and I were in college in 2001, I had only been there for a few weeks before someone on my floor told me a plane hit the towers. I was on my way to math class and I didn’t really give it too much thought until a few hours later I was leaving class and could see smoke from the Pentagon. The transition to college was already a little chaotic and this made it more overwhelming. I tried to call Grandma and Grandpa, but the phones were down. By the time I reached them, Marymount had been locked down and we were sitting around wondering and praying. In the end, 2,966 people died on 9/11/01 and many many more were hurt.
Sweetie, lots of bad things happen in the world. When you were rolling around in my belly, almost a month before you were born, a school shooting was the lead news story and someone said they couldn’t imagine bring a child into a world like this. Through my tears the first thing I thought was, ‘why not, this baby might be the one to change things’.
Now Mike, do I expect you to change the world? No, it’s a lot to put on one person. What I do expect, and I bet Daddy will back me up, is that you are kind to everyone, you do what is right even when it’s hard, and you see the good around you.
Sometimes, like after 9/11, it’s really hard to do that. But I know you can.
I’ll eat you up I love you so –
Momma xoxo
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Our lives were forever altered that day, just as much as they were altered the day those beautiful babies were born. How can we explain that to them? I often wonder how my grandmother explained it to her children. She lived through D-day, but then how do you explain it to your children until they experience something similar? I pray our babies never do.