This post should be sponsored by Kleenex. But it isn’t.
It’s a post that will remind you to hug your kids tight. Or even tighter. As we remember September 11, 2001.
It was one of those “I remember exactly what I was doing” moments in history.
But on a tragedy so, so large in scale, it’s the stories of the individual people that bring it all close to home.
This audio/video that I first listened to over at US fashion blog, Beautifully Invisible, is just one of those stories.
It brought me to tears as my daughter is the same age as this girl.
Yes, America we remember with you.
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it was a really sad day, and it wasn’t until recently that i thought about how our american tragedy affected the whole world.
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Thinking of you Rhonda and yes here in Australia we have empathized with Americans every step of the way. Australians were also targeted in the Bali bombings and one of my now girlfriends and mentors is a survivor of that tragedy.
Just devastating. So many families who lost loved ones. I cried my eyes out (not for the first time today). Have linked to you in my latest blog – oftentimes it is so easy to only see the big picture of tragedies like this, and forget the real human toll. The children growing up without fathers and mothers, the mothers and fathers living without their children.
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That’s exactly what made me post this. When a large-scale tragedy is bought down to human level, we can have more empathy.
Oh god you were right about the tears, am bawling. I can’t imagine what these families have been through, I just wish I could be more grateful for what I have day-to-day.
Nicole xxx
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It puts everything in perspective. And yes, I try to remember that most days when stupid, little things get to me.
Lest we forget, my thoughts are with the lost their family, friends and the service men and women working to rid our world of this evil, will we humans ever learn to love our fellow man?
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I hope so, Simone, I really do.
So terribly sad. A tragedy.
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A tragedy on a big scale but yet so many, many stories like the one above. Sad.
So very moving – thank you for sharing.
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Thanks so much, Carly x
Oh my goodness, I’m a blubbering mess listening to this… Too many children robbed of too much, that devastating day…
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Sorry Donna. I was too. We often get caught up in the magnitude of big disasters and forget the impact on individuals like you and I.