When We Were Six

I remember that day.

Schools, malls, restaurants and movie theaters in our town shut down, but thousands of other places were closed all over the United States.

I didn't quite get it then. I understood that something horrendous had happened, that a horror had been practiced on us, but I still didn't get it. It just didn't quite register with me, because Dom and I were so young, but I remember both of us being scared. Both of us clung to Mom's legs all day. Both of us were afraid that something like that would happen closer to us.

Both of us realized that the whole country shut down to mourn.

I don't know what else to say. But like Dom, I think it's important to respect it by remembering it.

Gill