MamaBlogger365 - In Honor of Heroes by Shira Adler, Diva Mama

On an impossibly perfect early September Monday ten years ago, the lives of all Americans were marred by a shocking display of evil perpetrated by fanatics, igniting a war on terror that still rages today. I can still remember that fateful day as though it were yesterday. But it wasnʼt yesterday, it was a decade ago...

My daughter was eight months old, and all I could do was watch the news in horror, hugging and rocking my baby girl in my arms, tears falling helplessly on her Classic Pooh-themed Onesie.

But today, as we remember our fallen brothers and sisters, I am reminded that we can find todayʼs heroes in the most unlikely of places; yes, the world is still full of them, and sometimes you donʼt have to look far to find them.

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September 11th did not directly affect me. Not really.

I did not live in New York City, or Washington, D.C., or have a loved one aboard one of the hijacked planes. I will never know what that day was really like.

I did not witness the smells and maybe worse, the sights. Nor did I feel the ash permeate my clothes and my City. I did not bravely continue to walk on the streets of New York on September 15th and 16th and January 14th. Trying to live a life.

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Photo credit: Candle Lighting by Petr Kratochvil