Friday, September 11, 2009

9/11

This morning both Michael and I were up early to prepare for a showing scheduled for 10am. Cleaning and whatnot before I headed off to work. And he had his ever-present Fox News on which was showing some footage from 9/11. Of course it stops you in your tracks having not seen it for a while, and we were both standing there watching it on the tv. Sami wanders in and sees we're captivated and so turns her attention to it too. She watched for a while, and then:

Sami: Momma, now why did those buildings fall down? Because of that fire?
Me: (thinking oh geez I have to be thoughtful in how I explain this to a 5 year old) Well, it is a little more than that, honey. Some very bad people took over two airplanes full of people that were flying in the sky. And the bad men hurt the pilots and took over flying the planes and crashed them on purpose into those buildings. All the people in the airplanes died, and people in the buildings died too. Some got out okay, but some died. It was a very sad day.
Sami: So the airplane crashes made the fire that made the buildings fall down?
Me: Yes. Those airplanes had tons of jet fuel on them and it burned into those big fires you saw and eventually that's what made the buildings collapse.
Sami: (thinking for a few seconds, and very somber) Ooooh. I hadn't thought about the jet fuel.

And no. She has no idea what jet fuel is. I'm fairly certain that prior to this conversation she'd never even heard those words before. I anticipated the next question would be, "What's jet fuel?" But she just slowly nodded once and wandered off.

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