September 11th Memorials

I was sitting today flipping through the channels and I saw the movie United 93 was on. I had never seen it so I decided I would give it a shot see what it was like. It was at the part where the plane is being hijacked. All of the passengers are freaking out and wondering what is going on. At this point I had to change the channel. I’ve watched war movies before which are just as true as this and they didn’t bother me, but for some reason I couldn’t watch this movie. It was too real.
Yesterday two memorials for the 9/11 attacks were put up. One is in downtown Omaha and the other is in Grand Island. The steel sculpture in Omaha stands 16 feet tall. It is people’s hands forming a sphere, representing the earth, with the Twin Towers next to it. Angel’s wings hold the Twin Towers up showing they “aspire to heaven.”
The Grand Island structure is a 350lb beam with over 1,000 signatures of policemen, firefighters and veterans.
It's crazy to me how something that happened 6 years ago can still seem so real as if it happened last week. We are still picking up the pieces and rebuilding our nation from what happened that day. It shows how strong of a nation we are though, that we can come back strong but still take time to mourn the ones who lost their lives.

James Bridges, who represented Woodmen at the ceremony, said people should honor not only those who lost their lives on 9/11 but also those who serve in law enforcement and the military.
"All of these are America's heroes," he said.