We took our family (minus Gavin) to The Healing Field in Sandy. Around the anniversary of 9/11, they cover a grassy area in flags. A lot of flags. Each flag represents a person who died that day. It is an overwhelming sight.
It was a great opportunity for us to talk to the kids about September 11, 2001, and what happened that day. Enoch knows quite a bit that he has learned from school and reading books. Kate was hearing this for the first time. Gavin was in preschool and even he doesn't recall too much. In some ways, I'm glad they do not remember it first hand. That they did not live through it. It was in many ways a horrific day. I'm proud that we can remember the good that came from that day and still celebrate those who died. Our kids can hear the story and hopefully learn from it, but they don't have the awful emotions, fear, anxiety attached to that day.
We talked about what happened, we asked the kids to be quiet and respectful and we walked through the flags (Enoch and Kate did great, Guard not so much). Enoch had a lot of questions, Kate really couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that this many people died all on one day.
It was a good thing for our family.
1 comment:
Oh, I would love to do this sometime! Kudos to you for taking your family and teaching them about what happened. It was an awful, awful, day 13 years ago. I hope we never have to experience anything like that again.
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