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nmah865.xml

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2002-09-03

I didn't know anything about it until I got to school. Then some kids started saying something about there's a plane flying into the World Trade Center. I thought it was a joke or something until I finally got to the library. There, they had a TV on showing the news. In each of the classes it was much the same until after lunch, I think.

No, I don't really think so. Sure at first, it's a shock. I mean, you never think anything could happen like this to the U.S. But now I htink it was a while ago, and even then, it was across the country. And what can you really do after something like that? Is some change in your lifestyle or attitude going to change anything? I don't think so.

September 11 will always be remembered as the day that planes flew into the twin towers. And it should be remembered as such. But it should also be rememebred as the day that we learned that the United States is not invulnerable. It was the day that someone actually challenged the U.S. And the years following September 11 will be how the world will find out if we are actually what we say we are. If all this time that anybody couldv'e stood up to the U.S. or whether we really do dish out the consequences.

We would have, if we had a flag. A friend of ours who flew a mission involving the response after 9/11 gave us a little flag that each member that flew that mission had in their plane. We have that framed and on the wall. My feelings about the flag haven't really changed since 9/11. All I know is that I've seen it more since then. I've always had respect for our flag, and what it represented. That was only reinforced after 9/11, and seeing our flag flying everywhere.