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nmah2969.xml

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2002-09-10

I woke up and realized that I had forgotten to set my alarm clock, which is pretty normal, but my parents hadn't come in to wake me up, which is not. I heard footsteps outside my door, and called my dad in. He sat on the edge of my bed and said that two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Centers. I had no idea what that meant. I went to take a shower.

It wasn't until I went out for breakfast that I realized that CNN was on, and it's NEVER on in the morning. Even my mom was watching it. I started getting scared and asking questions. What were the World Trade Centers? I'm not sure if I ever got a clear answer to that one. What will happen? My mom was postitive that this would be a day forever remembered, like December 7th,when Pearl Harbor was bombed. When did this happen? Early in the morning, in America time. We live in Indonesia, halfway around the world, about 15 hours different from America. For us, it was on live at about 10:00 PM. My parents said that they had seen the second plane crash, but I was already in bed.

At school, all my American friends were giving what they heard or saw on TV and the internet. One of our Austrailian teachers hadn't even realized anything until he got to school, and overheard one of his students talking about it.We had to beg our tachers to let us watch CNN in the library. Some let us. They wee interested too.

Well, since I live in Indonesia, but I'm American and I visit the US every summer, I spend a lot of time on airplanes, and you know that they've changed a lot. Also I think that i've been thinking more, being more mindful. I hope this happened in everyone's mind.

That the world will be a better place if we just try.

Living overseas, I have always felt a strong patriotism, but now it is even stronger. I sorta feel like I would have liked to be in the US, just to see all the flags waving.