story5113.xml
Title
story5113.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
My boyfriend called me to tell me to turn on the television. When I saw the devastating pictures that were in some way staring back at me, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Why was this happening? Why would someone purposefully hit the Twin Towers?
Then the pictures on the screen only got worse...the Pentagon was struck! A symbol of our strength, now had a massive gash in her side. Could this get any worse? Yes...Flight 93 crashed in the countryside of Pennsylvania. America was under attack, how could this be?
As the day that forever changed America unfolded, I sat in disbelief.
There was a gash in our symbol of strengh, and then a city scape was forever altered when the Twin Towers came gracfully, but tragically down. Another symbol of our strength gone forever. But in some way another symbol of our strength and determination became ever more evident when it was found out the the passengers of Fight 93 fought back.
Though our world will never be the same, we learned a valuable lesson. We learned we are vulnerable. We will never forget what happened on September 11, 2001. And may we never forget how Americans of every race, color, and creed came together not as individuals but as a nation to show the world, that you may be able to knock America down, but you will never be able to knock her out.
New walls will be built and grass will grow, but let us never forget those 2,801 heros that lost their lives for freedom.
In 1863, words were written on a piece of paper that have become are very fitting for America today. Here is a small excerpt from the famous Gettysburg Address.
"... The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom;..."
~ Abraham Lincoln, 1863
May we always be proud to be Americans and always honor those who so tragically lost their lives one year ago today.
September 11, 2002
Then the pictures on the screen only got worse...the Pentagon was struck! A symbol of our strength, now had a massive gash in her side. Could this get any worse? Yes...Flight 93 crashed in the countryside of Pennsylvania. America was under attack, how could this be?
As the day that forever changed America unfolded, I sat in disbelief.
There was a gash in our symbol of strengh, and then a city scape was forever altered when the Twin Towers came gracfully, but tragically down. Another symbol of our strength gone forever. But in some way another symbol of our strength and determination became ever more evident when it was found out the the passengers of Fight 93 fought back.
Though our world will never be the same, we learned a valuable lesson. We learned we are vulnerable. We will never forget what happened on September 11, 2001. And may we never forget how Americans of every race, color, and creed came together not as individuals but as a nation to show the world, that you may be able to knock America down, but you will never be able to knock her out.
New walls will be built and grass will grow, but let us never forget those 2,801 heros that lost their lives for freedom.
In 1863, words were written on a piece of paper that have become are very fitting for America today. Here is a small excerpt from the famous Gettysburg Address.
"... The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom;..."
~ Abraham Lincoln, 1863
May we always be proud to be Americans and always honor those who so tragically lost their lives one year ago today.
September 11, 2002
Collection
Citation
“story5113.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 1, 2026, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/7829.