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2002-09-11

My Grandmothers funeral was the day before. I was in Kingston Ny with my family getting over the shock of losing the most important person in my life.And then the phone rang and the world was swept from under my feet. " erika turn on the television", said my uncle. "DO YOU SEE WHATS HAPPENING? They crashed a plane into the world trade center!" I immediately turned on the t.v. and saw the world trade center on fire. And just as mind grasped what had just happened it happened again. Only this time right in front of my face. The second plane seemed to come out of no where and slam into the second tower. That was the final nail in the coffin formerly known as the world trade center. It seemed to me that the sky itself was falling. The pentagon was destroyed, the world trade centers gone, and a plane filled with heros fell from the sky saving the lives of the intended victims of the terroist the were aboard. What was happening to the country? WHAT would happen to me? What would happen to my brother who was is the army? All of these questions and not one person who could give me any answers. Why us? Why now? How could this happened? It is now a year later and some of those questions still remain. Has anything changed? Yeah some of it has. We wait longer to get on planes, and we are now prepared to shoot the planes down if we have to. But has the core of this problem changed? Has the U.S. done anything to diminsh the hate these people feel for us?