11 reflections on 9/11 Ryan Todd, senior

I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was shocked, confused and saddened by what I saw. I recall how silent everything was while I was walking the two blocks to class. Normally their is a lot a noise and people walking around but that day everyone I saw was somber and no words were said because everyone knew what the other was feeling.\nI am a member of the American Red Cross disaster action team and I knew what I had to do, I had to go to New York and help. I remember the sense of honor fallowed by an overwhelming sense of fear.\nBut I had to help. I had to do something, so in the month of November I boarded a flight to New York to take my turn working at Ground Zero. I thought it was bad on TV but in person it was so much more than bad. It was indescribable what I was seeing.\nThe memories from Ground Zero are still fresh in my mind. I will never forget the experience I had there. I will always remember the family members I saw who lost their loved ones and so much more, I will never forget the gifts God gave me on that day to respond and make a difference in something that was so horrible.