DaDigi wrote:This is starting to get a bit off. Lets keep this on topic, please. Thanks.
i disagree on that... robin is on topic the post clearly indicates that a symbolism with the tree and how it relates to remembering the lives lost that day. i think what hes getting at is that when we where attacked that we where small like a seedling and that after we where attacked our nation has grown not so much literally but metaphorically with increased patriotism and sense of community....
i remember where and what i was doing when i found out.
freshman year in high school i was in a small classroom about 20 other kids and where taking some standardized testing requiered by the state... it was about 10:30am and a ta shuffled into the room and had an odd look on her face. she told the teacher conducting the test something that made him drop everything he was holding (was a big stack of paper).
we all knew it was big cuz he lost all color in his face... thats when the test stopped and the instructor turned on the tv in the room.... to this day i am still speachless as to what exactly i saw that day on that little tv something that no one word could ever sum up, i could feel loss you knew there where people who where already dead. and you knew that each person knows someone is a freind to has a family has loved and been loved they where not simply faceless beings they had names like ours and they had goals, dark sides and light sides..... forever ingrained into my mind their lives now lost to the living but their spirits live on in the pages of eternity.