15 years

Fifteen years ago was 9/11.  September 11, 2001.

Melissa was 12. It was the beginning of a new school year.  She always got excited about school in the fall with all the new textbooks we had bought and she always was eager to start in on them.  Since Bryan works until midnight, we never got up to do school early.  We'd all sleep in until 10 or 11 and really get to work after he left for his shift.  But not in September!  She would get up way before us so I would leave her assignments for her ahead of time.

When we got up that day, she told us she'd had the TV on and every channel was showing the same thing.  It was as shocking to us as to the rest of the country.  Most of our school that day was current events, for sure.

Now it's been 15 years and today they are showing lots of programming about it on multiple channels. I can't believe I slept through the whole thing that day.