nmah4301.xml

nmah4301.xml

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2002-09-11

I am a 24 year old girl from Norway with american family. I was at a staff meeting at the hotel I work in, when one of my coworkers came in half an hour to late. He told us all about this accident that had happened in New York.
After the meeting I was on reception duty, but wanted to catch the news befor I started. That was the beginnig of a day that I to this date remember every minute of. It was unimaginable that people where actually dying infront of us. This was happening on the other side of the world at the same moment as we saw it on tv.
A few hours after the first crash, a group of 6 americans arrived at the hotel. I realized they didn`t know, and I had to be the one to break the horrible news to them. Of course, they where from New York. The rest of that evening and night (this happened in the afternoon norwegian time) I spent just beeing there for my guests and helping out in any way I could. I didn`t finish work until 3 o`clock in the morning, and when I came home I turned the tv on again. That`s when I started to understand this was actually real. I cried until the first rays of sunshine came up in the horizon.
At work the next morning the group of americans had left me a 20 dollar bill and a thank you-note. Both of them are now framed on the wall in my living room. The 20 dollars showing a picture of The White House with the text; In God We Trust.

I think before I act in a lot of ways. Life is too short to throw away on misunderstanding.

I do things I normally wouldn`t do. Life; again, is too short to waste. Just do it!! Don what you want, don`t waste time.

Remember to tell your loved once that you love them.

I smile more and help out as much as I can. After the tragedy I have 2 mottos;
"Life is now" and " A stranger is a friend you haven`t met yet".

I think it should all be remembered. Especially the human side of it. How we all came together as one nation, one world and one people. Of course we must never forget the trgedy, but something good came out of it after all. We all became eachothers helpers, and we must never forget the "spirit" we had then. If we could all help eachother out like we did then, the world would be a better place.

I am norwegian, but still bought an american flag and did fly it. To day, exactly one year later we put the flag up on half post and lit candels in our front yard. I think everyone shuld do that in years to come on september 11th. Everytime I see the American flag I am filled with emotions about this day. All the momories about the day comes back.