🇺🇸 WE WILL NEVER FORGET — SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 🇺🇸

Twenty-five years later, I can still remember exactly what that morning felt like.

My son Dom was just one year and one week old. I was holding him in my arms, alone in our living room, watching something unfold on television that my mind could barely comprehend.

Then I watched the second plane hit.

I remember the terror that came over me. My entire body was shaking. I held my baby tighter, and even though he was far too young to understand what was happening, he could feel me. Children feel our fear. They feel our energy. I will never forget looking down at him and realizing that the world had suddenly changed around us.

At the same time, my former husband was serving our country aboard the USS Thach, underway in the Pacific and returning toward San Diego after a port visit in Pearl Harbor. I couldn't simply reach him. I couldn't hear his voice and be reassured that everything was going to be all right.

There are moments in history we read about.

And then there are moments we feel in our bones for the rest of our lives.

September 11 is one of those days.

We remember the innocent people who went to work, boarded airplanes, answered phones, dropped children off and kissed their families goodbye without knowing it would be the last time.

We remember the firefighters who climbed up while everyone else was trying to get down.

We remember the police officers, paramedics, dispatchers, rescue workers, military members, volunteers and ordinary Americans who ran toward unimaginable danger to help another human being.

And we remember the families who carried   and continue to carryan absence that no anniversary can ever erase.

Theo’s Law Georgia stands with those families in remembrance.

Our mission may be different, but at the heart of advocacy is something universal: the belief that people matter, families matter, dignity matters, and no one should ever be forgotten.

So today, we remember.

We remember the lives taken.
We remember the heroes who answered the call.
We remember those who became sick in the years that followed.
We remember the children who grew up without a parent.
We remember the spouses, parents, siblings and loved ones whose lives changed forever.

MAY WE NEVER  become so busy, so divided, or so removed from history that September 11 becomes simply another date on the calendar.

Say their names. Tell their stories. Honor their sacrifice. Teach the next generation.

From our family and from Theo’s Law Georgia:

🇺🇸 We remember. We honor. We pray. And we will never forget. 🇺🇸

September 11, 2001  Always in our hearts.