story5464.xml
Title
story5464.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I woke up on September 11, 2001 to find my 3 year old son glued to the t.v. in his room. He'd fallen asleep watching a movie the night before and so the t.v. was on channel 3 when he woke. He had spent all morning watching airplanes fly into buildings and got upset when we wanted him to watch something else. We had to explain, (after watching it awhile ourselves), what had happen in a manner that we hoped was unthreatening to him.
Since then my son has pointed out the flag to us everywhere we go. Since we had never talked about the flag with him before we asked him what it was. His reply was, "So everyone will know we're sad for the people that died." I've tried to explain countless times that the flag stands for so many things more but he just doesn't believe me.
Since then my son has pointed out the flag to us everywhere we go. Since we had never talked about the flag with him before we asked him what it was. His reply was, "So everyone will know we're sad for the people that died." I've tried to explain countless times that the flag stands for so many things more but he just doesn't believe me.
Collection
Citation
“story5464.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 28, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/3608.