I remember
Photo by Rebekah Bavry, September 22, 2017, NYC September 11. 9/11. A day that changed many lives. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it would change mine…forever. As I hear and see the memorial ceremonies and remembrance ceremonies flashed across everything, news, social media, etc., I can’t help but reflect on what this day means to me and how it impacted my life. I still remember that morning. I was blow drying my hair in my room at the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority house when I turned on the morning news. It was a ritual that I did every morning: get up, turn on the news, get ready for classes. As the headlines came across breaking news, that a plane had hit the World Trade Center in NYC, I remember thinking, “Lord, some idiot pilot lost control of a plane.” I then turned off the news, not wanting to hear all the crap that I knew was going to come from an accident like that. It wasn’t until I entered into Smith Music Hall at Marshall University that I found out what rea...