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|  | AFA JournalColumnScarsEvents of September 11 will define our timeBy Ed VitaglianoAFA Journal News Editor AFA Journal, September, 2002 edition I remember the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. I don’t remember it clearly, but dream-like, because I was only five years old. Not yet being of school age, I was at home, and I remember the phone ringing and my mom picking it up, and breaking down in tears as my father told her the president had been assassinated, and that he was coming home from work. The events of September 11, 2001, will probably be like that for nearly every American who witnessed it. We’ll remember where we were when we first heard the awful news, and how we spent the day huddled around television sets, watching in shocked horror as first one, then the other World Trade tower fell into a dust-filled ruin of rubble, entombing thousands and breaking the hearts of millions. All my life I have heard people of the same generation talk about living through the Great Depression together. Or World War II. Or the Civil Rights movement. Or the Vietnam War and the ’60s. Despite differences that are vast and sometimes polarizing, people who share that one gigantic emotional moment together, or endure that long, desperate trial together, still find a common place to share their emotions. I think it’s because the ripples of those watershed events really do touch us all. They leave no one out. Each of us are imprinted forever by the image left by the tragedy’s impact. We are scarred by it. Of course, only a person who lives through a tragedy can have a scar, because a scar comes from healing. May God heal our generation, and may we bear our scars with the same dignity and courage as those who have come – and suffered – before us. | |
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