Wildflower

School continued as normal as I remember the rest of the day until it was time to go outside for recess. Mrs. Dixon had us all sit down by our desks because she wanted to talk to us before we left. That’s when I knew something was up. She then told us that planes had hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. She didn’t give us a lot of details but I remember her saying that she felt that we needed to know.

My parents never tried to hide any of the footage from me. Being from New York State, I had a lot of questions about the attack on The City. We lived far enough away (think Canadian border) that I never felt unsafe, but I wanted all the information I could get. I don’t know why now, but I think my ten year old brain somehow thought I was going to forget. I could never forget.

The news footage makes me more emotional now than it ever did fifteen years ago. I think it’s because I am now able to comprehend the emotional toll of the loss of life better at twenty-five than I ever could have at ten.

I couldn't find a list of Pokestops around me so I decided to make my own. Most of these are in Clay and Baldwinsville.

Great Northern Mall

St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton

Innovations Salon

Kerri Horniday Memorial Park

Our Lady of Peace Catholic Cemetery

Holy Bones (also at OLP cemetery)

Clay Eye Center (on Rt 57)

Ewaniszyk Memorial Fountain (across from GNM)