It's September 11th, so many thoughts are running through my head. I had to get up at 5am to go run the Chicago Half Marathon with my family. Rescue Engine 4 was at the race. 8 of it's crew members were first responders on Ground Zero, 0 came home. It was eerie to know that all of the members of this engine died, but the truck remained unharmed. To honor 9/11 everyone was asked to wear red white and blue at the race. Some people wore red white and blue, but others went all out.
We met a women before the race who was from New York. She told us that she didn't know anyone personally who was killed, but a women in her prayer group had a son who was a fire fighter who she hadn't talked to in years because he had married someone she didn't approve of. He died and the women felt bad that she couldn't forgive her son before he died.
My family ran the race and went to see the firetruck up close. We read the names of people that died from the truck. There was a different door on the truck from Rescue Engine 3. They found it alone at ground zero, the names of the men from that truck were on the door. 
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| Door from Rescue 3 |
There is a picture of my family and I standing in front of the turck holding a flag. A man had a flag with him and I asked if I could borrow his flag for a picture and he said something that really stuck with me, "It's not my flag...it's the countries." 9/11 really brought Americans together to fight people who wanted to tear us appart.
God Bless the USAPlease go to TheRRP.org and check out their site it means alot to the men of Rescue 4 and if anyone could donate money that would also mean alot to them. (I'm not just talking to our Issues class I'm talking to anyone who reads this blog!!)
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