It has been 10 years since the towers fell. Part of me can't believe that the time has gone so quickly while another feels as if it has dragged. It was ten years ago today that my friend Zach was 11 and on that day he knew that nothing would stop him from becoming a US Marine. He made that goal happen in 2008, leaving for Basic Training after his high school graduation.
In July 2010 he married the love of his life, December 2010 he was deployed a week before Christmas then 38 days later his mother, father, brother, sister and wife had to answer that horrible knock on their front doors.
It's been ten years, ten since the towers fell and yet today, we are still losing loved ones, parents are still burying their children and children are growing up without their parents. It angers me to no end and I will always be asking myself why. Why we are still there, why over 6,000 families are now feeling incomplete...just a lot of why.
It's been 10 years since the towers fell, it's been about 20 months since Zach died. No, we didn't lose him on that day in 2001 but it was that day that cemented his decision, it was that day he had in mind when he joined and it was that day he had in mind when he deployed.
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