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I was only eight years old on the day the terrorist attacked the twin towers, to me things have become safer since all that happened. I read a lot of Tom Clancy novels and to me now that I'm 18, I understand that he had a knack for coming up with realistic situations that could happen to this country at a moments notice. Yes it seems like we're dealing with immigration, but I never had a doubt about our national security when it came to our country being ready for an attack at moments notice. To a child growing up the last ten years, it seems like barely anything past technology has changed, but to me, a lot of good has happened since all this crap happened to us at our unluckiest time.

I remember September eleventh as the day they evacuated our elementary school in Lansdale, Pennsylvania in fear that we'd get hit with a bomb or an air plane. Lansdale has a Merck facility there. School was closed for a day or more from what I remember. Some might think that an 8 year old can't understand all that is happening in the middle of the chaos that had just occurred. My fear was that my mother and father weren't safe. I remember the days after the attack left our country in shock that everyone was having a hard time dealing with it all, but that we perceived the time as one to be thankful for what we have and for what the future may bring us in the long run. This is a first hand account of a girl who remembers all the hell that went on and was only a four hour drive from where the flight 93 had crashed killing every one including those terrorist who thought they were spineless people, but only finding that they had enough guts and strength to take on those men and women who so bravely protected this country.