Happy 3rd Birthday Kyle!
3 years ago, Greg and I dropped Zach, Em, and Ally off at his parents the evening of Sept 10th. At 7am on the 11th, we went to the hospital to be induced. We had picked the 11th because it was Greg's grandfather's birthday (his 67th). At 8:30am, the nurse set up my pit drip.
Greg turned on the TV and flipped through the channels. I'm not a daytime TV watcher (unless it's Nick Jr or Disney) so I told him to turn it off, it was annoying. 5 minutes later he was bored and asked to turn the TV back on. Fine, whatever. He found the Today show just as Matt Lauer announced, "Something has exploded at the World Trade Center" and then the show broke for commercials.
If you were watching TV that day, you know what happened next. The second plane. The plane at the Pentagon. The plane in Pennsylvania. And to my absolute horror, the towers crashing down on live TV. I remember thinking, I just watched thousands of people die. I'm still not over the shock.
That day was filled with tears. But not the right ones for a labor and delivery ward. The nurses stood at the doorways of our rooms to watch the TV's and wept. The cheerful excitement of friends and families visiting new babies and their parents was gone. Instead of crying for the joy of a new life in the world, we were crying for the senseless loss of thousands. While we tried to celebrate a birth, we knew that tonight husbands, wives, children, friends wouldn't be returning home to their loved ones. It seemed so wrong to try to be a tiny bit happy in the face of such extreme sorrow.
I know everyone has a 9/11 story to tell. This is mine.
Kyle Joseph was born at 7pm, Sept 11, 2001.
We will never forget.
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