Remembering the Disaster
Article by Kristina Southern
The day was September 11, 2006. Five years after the World Trade Center tragedy that befell our country students of St. Anthony College Prep filed into St. Anthony's church, and you couldn't help but notice the various emotions and attitudes.
You wondered if they knew
that within minutes their lives
would be changed yet again,
for the fifth time.
Father Jose Magana started off with a moment of silence and the faces around the church begin to grow solemn. Eyes that had been wondering had found their new focal point; a screen in the center of the alter. Scenes from the footage filled the church with debris, the same debris that settled around New York, filling their minds with uncertainty.
Fire fighter Wayne Hauron stands up and begins to tell about his experience. "I will never forger my brothers that day," says Hauron after wards during a brief interview. He seems humble and never talked about what he saw or did there at ground zero. 343 New York firefighters died that day.That is more than our entire St. Anthony student body.
Many say that 9/11 is over done. "Who cares anymore?" was a common question that was muttered throughout the day. Perhaps it is a bigger deal than is necessary, but it still mustn't be forgotten.
Tragedies are like broken records,
they play over and over
again in our heads. The
screams, the bodies, the fires,
the accidents, the faces, will
never be unheard or lost.
Forever
in our hearts, the victim's
of September 11, 2001.
Kristina Southern is a member of the SA Wave staff