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2004-02-17

I live in New Orleans, Louisiana. I was fifteen when September 11th occured. I remeber siting in class, ten minutes before the bell was to ring. It was second period, band class. I remeber the teacher getting a phone call from her friend who worked at another school telling her to turn on the television, that we are under attack. I remeber how franticly she searched for the on button.
When the television warmed up the images we saw before us were unimaningeable. The first tower was standing still, though engulphed in flames, the second tower hadn't been hit yet. The whole of the class watched in horror. I remeber thinking, "Well this is it... this is the begining of the end of the world. I just hope to God on one has used nukes yet." At that time we had no idea who attacked us, if we attacked first, or even if it was over. Reports said that there were more planes in the air that they had suspected of being hijacked. We heard about explosions in the capital, that schools were being blow apart. Reports were coming in from everywhere. People even said that there were biological agents involved. I watched the second strike live on television. I saw the first tower fall. I saw the plane spread across the ground. I saw the bodies of human beings falling from the sky, trying to escape death by fire. Couples jumped off holding hands. One fire fighter was killed on the ground by one of these falling people. I pray no country has to go through what we went through that day... the horror, the pain, the anger, the fustration all rolled into one ball. That day changed the future of warfare and the entire way of life for the world.

My life has not changed, I wouldn't let it. If we let terrorists change the way we live then we let the terrorists win.

Our botherhood, patriotisim, love for each other, or detrmination to find those that did this and bring them to justice. We were one as a nation at that time and the whole of the world was with us.

Yes, my family flew the flag. We flew it high and proudly. Patriotisim flurished in the United States after those events and we banded together, under one flag, to defeat those who took so many lives from us.