Girl Proud of How She Commemorates Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks

Though Kelly Chursen, 25, admits that she was not directly affected by last September’s terrorist attacks on American citizens, she still feels as if she is “doing [her] part to make sure people know that [she] is doing [her] part to honor those who do their part to help those who were directly affected by the attacks.”

“I didn’t know anyone who died last September and I haven’t really done anything to support any of the victims,” said Chursen, a freshman in sociology. “But whenever I’m at the New York Bagel Shoppe, I do order the Twin Towers sandwich from time to time to at least commemorate the memory of September 11 to my friends. I don’t even like how the sandwich tastes, but I do it anyway.”

Chursen, who currently attends a community college in Taskit, Mississippi, said she first heard of the September 11 tragedy on September 17, 2001, upon her return home from a week-long Alaskan cruise.

	Above: Chursen, wearing a very tiny American Flag pin, is satisfied that you are having a good day.

“Even then, I didn’t get really sad about it until I watched all that footage on the TV for a few days,” Chursen said. “Then I got all worried and depressed and I had to go on another Alaskan cruise just to cheer myself up.”

Chursen, hesitant to step foot in an airport in order to fly back to Alaska, says that she was forced to catch a cruise ship from Mississippi to Mexico, another from Mexico to California, and yet another from California to Alaska. The ordeal took almost a month, causing Chursen to fail all of her college classes, which sent her into an even deeper depression.

However, Chursen says that her disheartening inconveniences ultimately opened her eyes to terrorism’s inherent evilness and ability to affect everyone. Chursen has since resolved to make a stand against terrorism in any way possible by purchasing fewer illegal drugs, an American Eagle brand purse, and a T-shirt that reads “I Love the New York Knicks.”

            “I realized that I need to show my respect in any way I can, especially as the one-year anniversary draws near,” Chursen said while drawing mustaches on a stack of Osama bin Laden pictures. “For instance, I got real quiet last week during the MTV Video Music Awards when they had a September 11 tribute thingie on.”

Pursen adds that though she has not attended church in two years, read more than one passage of the Bible, or ever put more than a minute’s honest thought into whether the existence of God makes any sense, she will pray for the victims and their families on the morning of September 11, 2002.