A Nation Changed

             Where were you three years ago on September 11th when our great nation was fallen under attack? It seems as if everyone knew exactly where they were that fateful day. The terror attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon changed the lives of Americans forever. After this event, there was greater patriotism through out the United States, greater concern on self-defense against terrorism, and the repeated criticism of the leaders of our country.
             The event that happened was the September 11th attack on the Twin Towers. Early that morning hijackers boarded two seven forty seven commercial airplanes and hijacked the planes with box cutters. Later, the first plane slammed into the left tower starting a fire. Nobody could believe what was going on. Everyone was really scared because all you saw were flames coming from the building. You couldn't help but think of the innocent people trapped inside. Then the second plane hit the right tower. I was in disbelief, how could this happen? By now, every channel on the T.V was showinWhere g the coverage. America was watching in horror. The New York fire department was there trying to rescue people. Both towers were engulfed in flames. Then without warning the towers, which had been burning for hours, now tumbled straight to the ground. A huge cloud of dust covered Manhattan, where the accident occurred. No one could believe this was actually happening to America.
             When the tragedy was finished, not even a week went by when you saw almost every American with a flag on their window or flying it outside their homes. America felt grief for all those innocent people dying that they felt they needed to show their patriotism for the U.S.A. Even Hollywood seemed very affected by this tragedy; they started writing songs and movies about this event. Our entire Nation came together in this time of need. More and more people went and visited the troops who would soon go off to battle for our great countr...

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