nmah3017.xml

nmah3017.xml

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2002-09-10

That night I had nightmares and I couldnt sleep all night, when I started falling asleep, around six oclock, my step-mother woke me up and told me that somebody is bombing New York (she didnt know what was going on at the time). I jumped out of bad and ran to watch news, to find out what is going on. I couldnt understand what is going on. My brain refused to understand, even try to understand. On TV I saw New York in smoke. Just less than two months ago I have been there, in New York. I couldnt believe that this is really happening. No, wait a minute, this is not happening! It is probably some of those Hollywood movies, and this all is not real. My mind tried to wake up, from this nightmare. My mind went blank, my subconsciously I tried to escape, to protect my mind from this horrible information. I will wake up any minute and everything will be fine. On my way to school I listened to the radio. At that time all the information everybody knew was that hijacked plane crashed into north tower of World Trade Center. In school we watched News in all classes. Which made some of kids happy that they dont have to do anything, I think they just didnt realize at the time that it is really happening. I learned some words that day, such as hijack, terrorists, attack, collapses, crashed, and some others, that I wish I would learn in other circumstances. As I watched news, I found out that Islamic terrorists hijacked four planes. And that two of them crashed in WTC, another one flew in Pentagon, and last one of them crashed in forest. I felt so defenseless and powerless. Understanding of what has happened scared me. I wanted to run away, to just wake up and realize that it was just a bad dream.

My live have changed. It happened without me knowing or really thinking about it. I think that that was the day when I really became an American. The way I think and do things is so different from what it was before September 11th. Everybodys live in United States and in the world had changed. Now, looking back one year ago, I can say that it is not the same anymore, and it never will be the same anymore. The way people treat each other changed. American nation came together. We support each other more, we show how much we care and express our feelings everyday. Whole nation became stronger and more patriotic. All together we overcame this fear and sadness. Even though, it badly reflected on economics of United States, spiritually it made people much stronger.

The death of 3 066 people cant be forgotten. We must remember people who died and how hard it was for our nation. Also, we should remember soldiers who are fighting for our country in Afghanistan. And we should not judge whole nation or religion by one person. If Osama bin Laden is Islamic, that doesnt mean that we should fear and disrespect all Islamic people. This world is not perfect, but we still can change it. If everybody will do a little bit, than all together we can make this world better.

Yes, I did fly an American flag after the events of September 11th. It feels more secure now. They do everything that is possible to make it more secure and to check each person before letting them on plane. However, I believe that problem is not with American Flag, but with people, and there is nothing that American Flag could do to change everybody in this world. There are terrorists and if they really want to hurt people there always is a way to do it, and I dont think that there is anything that could completely stop them from doing what they want to. Humans mind doesnt have borders and it is really sad, that some people use their mind to find the way to kill more people in one day. As long as there are people who really want to do a terrorist act it wont be one hundred percents secure. It is really sad that people look for a way to go around the rules and security in order to hurt somebody.