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nmah1919.xml

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2002-09-09

When I woke up on September 11, I didn't plan on witnessing history, I planned on going to another boring day of school. That day turned out to be the most tragic day of my life. I was walking from my third period class to my fourth period class. I walked into the room hearing rumors about the trade center being blown up. I didn't believe it, nobody ever thought something like that would ever happen in the U.S., but it did. I stood open-mouthed as rumors became reality and I had seen replays of the planes crashing into the first tower. Soon after that, the t.v. was turned off and it was back to class.

September 11, has changed my life in a way I never thought possible. I now look into the sky whenever I see or hear a plane passing overhead and pray that nothing goes wrong. My views of foreigners have also changed. Before I didn't really have a problem with anyone from the Middle-East, but now I think that even though most of them didn't do anything, they're all at fault because of something a few people did. I can't even watch the news anymore because I get mad when I see those people running around with car bombs and all that thinking to myself that they should pay.

I think that people get too wrapped up in the bad things that happened on that fateful day. We shouldnt reflect on all the bad that happened, we should really think about how that one event changed the way Americans live and the diversity that was among us is now gone. September 11 brought our country together, even though many lost their lives.