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2002-09-30

September 11, 2001
Krista Metzger

September 11th, in my mind, will always remain a terrible day for America, but I think that we, as a nation, have gotten stronger as a result of what happened. On the morning of September 11th, I had a dentist appointment at 9:30, so I wasnt at school.
At 8:30, I was putting on my tennis shoes, and every now and then I would glance at the T.V., where Good Morning America was on. At 8:46, the broadcast was interrupted, and Diane Sawyer said that a plane had hit Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. They didnt have any information at the time of what had really happened but there was fire coming out of the building. I didnt think much of any thing about it because things happen every day like a plane crash, so I put it out of my mind. I stopped watching T.V. and went upstairs to brush my teeth and to tell my mom and sister to hurry up. When we came back downstairs about 10 minutes later they were showing the video of another plane hitting a WTC tower. Then we heard the announcement that they suspected that it was a terrorist attack, and my heart jumped. I didnt think any thing like that could happen to America.
We listened to the radio broadcasts all the way down Versailles Road to the dentists office, and heard it in the waiting room and the whole time I was getting my teeth cleaned. The nurse said that she needed to call her cousin because she worked in the WTC, and she hoped she was all right. On the way home we stopped at McDonalds and got some milk shakes, where we heard on the radio that 2 more planes were crashed, one in the Pentagon, and one more in a field in Pennsylvania. Then we made our way back to Versailles, to go to school. I really didnt think that anyone at school would have heard of what had happened, and I expected every thing to be as usual.
When I got in third block, I sat down and everyone was strangely quiet, I figured they had just gotten into trouble or something. Then I told my friend that I was scared because of the events that had happened that morning, and he said Yeah, this is the first block we havent watched it. I was anxious turn on the T.V. and watch history happen, but we didnt watch it the rest of the day. I felt like the teachers were depriving us of not knowing how and why this happened. As soon as we got home from school the TV was on and so was the president, talking about the days events.
Over the next few days I cant remember anything else memorable to happen except that I had called my uncle and I talked to him for like 2 hours about the terrorists attacks and how I didnt think another one would happen, and he agreed. I remember lots of people coming on the TV and describing people that were MIA. My mom, who works at Central Baptist Hospital, said that the hospital was put on red alert, and was where over-flow victims would go from New York.
Six months later, life had gone on as if nothing had ever happened. Every now and then youd hear things about how they had found some pieces of people in the rubble, but nothing to serious about Osama Bin Laden. My youth group took a trip to New York on March 5-10. I thought it would be a good experience to see the history of our country and where it happened. So I went and saw the big hole where the World Trade Center Towers used to stand. There were flags all over the city and people were acting nice to everyone, and the streets were a lot cleaner then you would expect. We saw memorials all down Fulton Street, and I heard a lady comment on how she would rather not have everyone standing there gawking at the World Trade Center, it makes it hard to mourn. As I thought about that statement, I know that she was right, and that she probably lost someone. New York City had constructed several memorials to honor the hard-hats, and those who had died.
The events that happened on 9-11-01 will always go down in history about the day America grew into a nation. I know that it was a terrible thing, but a very good thing come out of it, too.