DreamSense

So I’m having nightmares from the attacks on the 11th. I keep dreaming that I’m back in High School and I’m trying to warn people about the attacks that are about to take place. But no one will listen to me. I’ve hard of survivors guilt, but I wasn’t there…can that still be true if you weren’t there? I don’t know. But something is making me dream about these things and I don’t want to dream about them anymore!

Today I was awarded “Student of the Month” at school. They played some patriotic songs while we waited for the ceremony to begin. My thoughts weren’t on the ceremony at all, I was too busy thinking about all the people who died yesterday and will probably die today due from complications to what happened yesterday. I wondered if they would say anything about the 11th, but they didn’t. It was business as usual kind of thing. The ceremony was nice, my parents were there to cheer me on. I know it’s not a glamorous award, I mean they hand them out every month. But it felt good to be recognized.

Woke up this morning to the news on the TV. It appeared a small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center (one of the towers) in New York. I went to school thinking nothing of it. That’s when the unexpected happened. On my way to school, another plane hit the other tower. A jetliner. New York was under attack. Needless to say school kinda froze at that point. That’s all anyone was talking about. We gathered around the instructors computer and watched and read the headlines on the internet. The news was putting out information as quickly as they could about the terrorist attacks. Then there was the Pentagon. Another airplane crashed into the Pentagon. I don’t know how serious that one was. We gathered in another classroom where they got a TV working. We watched as the World Trade Center (both towers) came crashing down. So many people died today. I can’t even fathom it. What a terrible day to be alive.