nmah2887.xml

nmah2887.xml

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2002-09-10

September 11, 2001. School had been in for one week and I was just starting to become accustomed to eighth grade, my new teachers, new classrooms, and getting back into the swing of things, when suddenly it all changed.
Rumors began circulating through the school during lunch. We had a barbecue outside, and during it three peoples parents came and picked them up. No one knew what was going on.
After school, me and a few of my friends were having a football game out on the field. A couple of seventh graders came up to us and told us that planes had flown in to both world trade towers and into the pentagon. Then they said how the towers had fallen.
We were all shocked. We saw tragedies happening all over the world, but never thought it could happen to us. We were the invulnerable giants, the US, how could this happen to us?
I took the bus home and for the first time ever, my mom, little sister, and older sister were there to pick me up in the car. They validated what I had heard earlier. My older sister worked in the Prudential and told me that the whole city of Boston was evacuated.
At home, on the TV, the only thing that was on were pictures of the towers falling. It looked like something that you would have seen in the movie Independence Day. But this was true, it had really happened, and real lives were lost.
September 11th has made me realize that we arent the invulnerable giants I had thought we once were. It also taught me how fragile life is and to love the ones around me, because one day they might not be there.

September 11th has made me realize that we arent the invulnerable giants I had thought we once were. It also taught me how fragile life is and to love the ones around me, because one day they might not be there.

I think that the terrorists and Osama shouldn't be rememebred, but the heroes should. The firefighters, the cops, the EMTs, the volunteers, and the people who helped take down the fouth plane.