We will never forget....

This short-film captures exactly what I remember about September 11th. I was one week away from starting my sophomore year of college. I was carefree and on a beach retreat with my sorority sisters. I remember being one of the first girls awake and seeing the news. I was stunned. 10 years later I can still remember how fast my heart was beating. My palms were sweating. I think it was the first time in my life I was truly and utterly afraid.

I feared for my father who I thought might be recalled to the Armed Services.

I feared for my future. Would I finish college? Would I have a school to go back to a year from now?

I feared for all the people in The Twin Towers, The Pentagon and the plane that crashed outside of Pennsylvania. Did anyone survive?

Most of all

I feared war.

Not the war we see on the news, so far away. War in my backyard. As a young American, it was the first time the reality of the world slapped me in the face. It forced me to think about what other people are faced with everyday. Not feeling safe. Not knowing the direction your country may go. Will there be a tomorrow? Politics aside, I learned something about myself that day.

I was ignorant.

I thought I was an intelligent person. I graduated with a great GPA from high school. I was a successful college student. But that just isn't enough. September 11th taught me that there is more to being a person than what you can write on a resume. It is about participating in the human experience. Understanding your place in the world. Knowing what is happening all around you, not just what is right in front of you. September 11th was a terrible day in our nation's history but in the history book of my life that was the day I became a citizen of the world.