Patriot Day....

Tomorrow is Patriot Day 9/11 a Day that will never be forgotten...so memorable to my generation comparable to my grandparents generation of Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow will be a day of rememberance but also a intresting one for me. You see I recently started a new job two weeks ago as a Kindergarten Assistant at a local Elementary School. I love my job and working with these children. We are celebrating tomorrow at school but as my day winded down today I thought about the children in my class one of them born tomorrow. I know being the inquisative children that they are...they are going to ask why we celebrate Patriot Day just like last week they ask why we celebrate labor day. It made me laugh at that but back to my post. You all of my class was born 5 years after 9/11. How do I explain to a child why this day is so important when they weren't even born. I remember those images of the planes crashing and the buildings falling thinking this can't be real who would do such a thing as this. Last year was the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center Attacks. I was 10 years ago a high school freshman playing volleyball, and hanging with my friends enjoying life. I guess my children in my class will have to learn about it through history books just like I did with my grandparents about Pearl Harbor. They will learn and understand that it will ever be a major part of our history forever. And tomorrow as we are sitting in the classroom and the child asks me why we celebrate this day Partriots Day I will tell that child that we celebrate for brave people who died trying to resuce other people from danger. I will tell them about the brave story of lives changed and people saved. Until Next Time!