nmah1939.xml

nmah1939.xml

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2002-09-09

I got to watch cnn a little bit in 3rd, 4th and 7th periods but the school said we couldn't watch it so we had to sneek it in when ever we could. At school you would here that the pentigon was hit or that there were still planes up there and you just didn't know what was real and what was just rumor. When i got home i turned on the news and watched a little until i was just filled with anger and couldn't watch anymore. During the night I would tune in a little to see what was going on in the world and i would just see the tape loops of people jumping, the 2nd plane smashing into the building and the towers collapsing. It was horrable but it must have been worse for the people there, seeing it for real.

Before 9/11 i never knew what i wanted to be. It was a cop one week and then a teacher the next. That day i knew i wanted to be a marine in the worst way. I know we still wont be fighting Osama Bin Laden after i get out of college but i still want to go fight someone, mabey stop another country from doing somthing like this again.

I think we should remember the firefighters who wrote there serial #'s on there arms before rushing so there bodys could be identified. I think we should remember the cops who ran up flights of stairs to save the people up above. We should remember the people on the airplane that forced the terrorists down over Pennsylvania. We should remember the soilders that died in the pentagon who were making plans or just patroling the hallways. We should remember the civilians on the ground who were crushed or were in the building when it went down. Remember every and all the true Americans that died.

yes we do fly a flag now and I do see the flag differently. I have seen the flag and it fills me with pride, pride knowing that the terrorists wont win and that America will persevere. I love the flag and i hope it is ever flying.