nmah5334.xml

nmah5334.xml

born-digital

story

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2002-12-16

I was attending Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI.
I had just arrived at school. I was standing in the elevator when i started over hearing about a plane crashing into a building. Then as i was headed to class, i heard it was the world trade center. i thought that it was just a small plane. Then I heard that two planes had each hit a tower. I had time before class, so i went to a computer lab and found out the details of the unfolding events on the internet. Come class time, I hear from a girl whom i attended high school with that the pentagon had just been hit. That is where I realized that we were under attack. All day, the tvs throughout campus had a huge crowd. As I was watching, I new something was wrong when the FAA closed the airspace over our country.

I would not say that my life has changed except for the better. I learned how valuable it is. So I learned how to live each day as if it could be the last.

I think that we should remember how all of our everyday workers who are taken for granted are heroes. Police, firefighters, janitors, even people traveling on business who averted more disasters.

I did fly the flag. I think with the flag, we need to use it as a symbol of freedom. We need to realize that we are lucky around the world.