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Shield Insurance Blog <\/a>| 9\/11 Memorial | <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was watching the TV, on 9\/11, as my young children were in the driveway waiting for the school bus. I peeled myself away when I heard the bus driver honk the horn to give me a wave goodbye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TV images were numbing. We remember them, they are\nunforgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Days later as the rubble from the buildings settled, and the\nimmediate chaos cleared, people started to do more, be more, give more, go to\nchurch more. For a while, it changed many areas of our everyday life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeks later our neighborhood held a block party. I set a jar out to collect funds to do something in a neighborhood affected by 9\/11, from a neighborhood to a neighbor. I was thinking maybe a bench or a birdbath. The money and support poured in, not only from our neighbors, but local companies, communities, the city of Flower Mound, and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9\/11 Memorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We ended up with almost $10,000 in cash, 12 square feet of granite, and the etching donated. Even Federal Express stepped up to ship a stunning 12-foot square laser etched memorial. Designed by two teenage boys from our neighborhood, it was placed in a New Providence New Jersey Neighborhood that lost 6 people that fateful day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a project of good love and support, from our neighborhood, our community, the city, area businesses, and it had the same effect on the people of New Providence whom I am still very close friends today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish there was a way to commemorate this event for the vast\ngoodness it brought out in the people. I wish the anniversary wasn\u2019t so\ndifficult on all the families that lost loved ones, and the thousands of people\nthat were in the path of responding\u2026. It was a very painful time for too many\npeople. Some years I don\u2019t want to mention the Memorial our town made happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I always go back and remember all the good that people gave and the goodness that we, as a nation, need to keep showing over and above all the other bad in the world. It always boils down to the simplicity of Good vs Bad. I choose to rejoice in the Good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connie Simmons-Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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