Where's My Mommy?

Elizabeth Copeland

The terrorist attacks on September 11th were overwhelming; too much to comprehend at one time. I found myself focusing on details as they were reported in the news. But by the end of the day, what I was focusing on was the lack of information about the children of the people who died in the attack. Who was picking them up from school? How many of them lost a parent that day? I found this remained the part that I could not let go of so when this opportunity to make a quilt in reaction to this awful event arose, I had to deal with the image of loss that would not leave me. By making this quilt and another one to go to the Linus Project, I have started to move on. But I know that we, as a community, will be called on to help these children for years to come.