September 11,2001 to many New Yorker’s and many AMERICANS is a day of horror, sadness, trauma, and grief. It does not matter how many years it has been or how many memorials have been done, 9/11 is still and always will be one of the most traumatic days that some of us have ever experienced; me included.

I think many people who talk about 9/11 so ignorantly on social media forget that just because they weren’t affected, 2996 families that day were and hundreds of families following who have lost family members due to 9/11 related illnesses.

Coming from a girl who was personally affected from these attacks, your ignorance really hurts. No, my father did not pass away in the towers, but my Dad’s best friend who was like an uncle to me did. Then, when I thought the pain and suffering that our families experienced was to much to bear already, my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 14 years later because he was a first responder down at Ground Zero after the attacks. My dad fought for a short 10 months and unfortunately lost his battle to pancreatic cancer.

One tweet I saw on twitter this week stated “it was 15 years ago, can we move the f*ck on? USA loves being the f*cking victim”….

The amount of years that have gone by absolutely does NOT change how much pain and suffering many of us have went through. I wish I could tell you that every year that passes makes it easier. It doesn’t, it makes it harder. The reason for this is because when you’re actually directly affected you would understand that when you see the number “15” you remember that it’s 15 years since you kissed the one you love goodnight, your children saw their mother or father, parents saw their children, nieces and nephews saw their uncles or aunts. Not only that, the mental health problems that have developed due to 9/11 don’t just go away because it’s “15 years later”. For you, the ones who haven’t been directly affected, you should also educate yourself on how many people actually did pass, because as an American, on this day, no matter how many years have passed, you should mourn the loss of the innocent people who lost their lives so tragically on that day.

Another tweet I saw referenced how “white people can’t get over one day that happened 15 years ago but want African Americans to get over 300 years of racial oppression”

I will let you figure out that one for yourself because I know that it was not only “white people” who were victims of this attack. Every race, ethnicity, and gender were targeted and killed.

It is disgusting to me how people could, on 9/11, be so ignorant and heartless.

September 11^th is not a day to speak about your conspiracy theories, who was accountable for the attack, if it was an attack or not, it is a day for our nation to come together as one to honor the fallen and remember the sacrifice that so many men and woman made that day.

I am praying that next year there is not as much ignorance on my news feed because it really hurts to see that people can be so heartless about an attack that has effected to many around them. I am also praying for you, the ignorant ones, that you may find some love in such a hateful bitter heart.