This past Tuesday, our nation paused to remember the shocking events that took place 17 years ago – September 11, 2001. My son was just two weeks old to the day. I had just finished checking on him and my brother called and said to turn on the TV. It was hard to comprehend what I was seeing. A plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers in New York? Had a pilot had a heart attack? I couldn’t get my head around it at first.

I spent the rest of the day watching the news coverage. I was watching when another plane hit the second tower. Word of the attack of a third plane on the Pentagon and the...