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2002-09-11

As i remember it, i was sitting in government class all ready to take notes on the bill of rights or something when a heard a rumor floating around of a bomb going off in New York. I didnt think much of it because most of the time i need the hard facts to believe something. I was instantly disheartened to hear a voice come on over the loudspeaker saying that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings. I was in disbelief. It was one of those moments were you dont know what to think so your left there wondering what is going on while in the meantime you have this goofy but yet eery look of surprise transfixed on your face. Throughout the rest of the day i was just moving through the motions as if nothing really mattered. When a arrived home i turned on the television to find every channel locked on the twin towers, or what were the twin towers. The stations repeatedly showed the inexplainable act of terrorism that halted the work of almost all of America. As i flipped through the channels watching the same thing over and over i couldnt help but wonder what was next. Were do go from here? What should we be thinking? But most of all, How should we be feeling? These questions would come to be answered in the days to come.

Yes. My life is now more valuable to me then ever. Before September 11th i think that most Americans, not all, took many everyday things for granted, inlcuding life. They forgot, or should i say, we forgot the value of life itself which is the most important of all. As i learn that in may other countries things like this happen everyday i begin to realize how much of a rude awakening this was.
Every morning when i wake up, no matter how i am feeling, i am always thinking of what is going to happen during the day. I think that everyone does this in there own sort of way. People think of how they will dress and what they will eat, some also think of when they are going to get there unfinished homework done(me). The one thing you dont think about is death, what if i die today. It is just unnatural to think of something like this because we take life as a given, we believe we are guaranteed life so we think about all the minor aspects of our everyday activities. I am almost positive that no one that died on September 11th 2001 woke up to the thought of death. They woke up in a usual routine, and drove to a usual flight out of boston, and waited in a usual line in the airport. What happened next surprised not only them but the entire United States.

Of course the people who died and their families, every firefighter and police officer who helped save lives, and every civilian who gave up is safety to help others. As a student at Boston College High School it is required of us to be men for others. Many people who lost there lives for others gave up their most sacred possesion for someone else. If that isnt being a man for others, or rightly so, a person for others, than i dont know what is.

At one point i had a flag on my wall. I remember my friend strapping a giant flag to the top of his jeep in order to show is support of the united states. I believe that the American Flag should always be respected and flwn high by everyone no matter what the cicumstances. It does strike me as odd that it takes something like this to make everyone unite through the flag but at the same time i dont think it is a bad thing that people are sharing their patriotism and supporting their country even more than before.