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2002-09-10

I witnessed September 11th on television in all of my classes that day, but even before i went to school i had heard about what was going on the radio when i was getting ready for school. When the two towers fell i was in 1st and 2nd period so we basically watched t.v. or if we didn't have t.v. in the classroom we listened to the news reports over the radio. All day, even after school all the news showed were those horrible images of when the two towers fell, it was just a constant reminder of what had happened. Every one was talking about it and it just made things worse because everyone was panicking and sad. The rest of the day after 1st ad 2nd period they tryed not to remind us of what was happening so much, we tryed to stay on normal routine, which was hard knowing what was going on at that same time. We had memorial services and moments of silence for those who were lost and even some people at school had either known or do know people who had been lost and were grief stricken. The memorials and news updates lasted for about a week.

My life has changed because it just reminded me how much freedom we have that women in other countries dont have, so they just take it upon themselves to come and kill people here because of our beliefs. Many people are more skiddish now and are thinking something else may happen so alot of people i know are afraid to do the things they used to, such as fly. Now everytime i get on a plane i will wonder, am I going to die today? This scares me to death, not knowing how our lives could change in the next 5 or 10 years, we could have another full on war. They basically took away some of our freedom and our security in doing things. This makes me mad because they had no right what so ever to do this and they killed thousands of people in their way. I dont know anyone personally who died on sept. 11th but it still hits me hard what those people had to go through.

I think that all the firefighters and the police who attempted and helped to save people lives and those people on the planes who took over and diliberatly crashed it, as to not destroy anymore people's lives should all be remembered. I mean the people who died should to but these people should be specifically remembered as heros, becuase they made that horrible day a little bit better for some people by saving their lives, helping the wounded, unburing people, and just helping. These people are the real heros who stood in the face of danger, to help someone in need, even if it means that they might die.

Yes i did fly an american flag, but it was a hard task because we had to serch for weeks just to find one, because everyone wanted a flag. I had a couple, my mom put one in front of our house and one on each of our cars. Yes my feelings have changed about the flag because now i really understand what the flag stands for, freedom. Which we can lose very easily and which we have, unlike many countries. This is one of the reasons we got attacked, they dont believe in our rights not only as women but as americans. So everytime i see the flag it just reminds me how lucky we are to have such a great country and how much freedom we have which we should hold so preciously.