9/11/01- Day of Infamy

             All Americans who lived through what happened on September 11, 2001 will never forget the tragedy that occurred on that day for no reason. Terrorists decided to attack our buildings, with our own planes and our own people onboard them just because they did not like the way Americans lived their lives and what they thought America stood for. I know I will never forget who told me of the attacks, or where I was and who I was with when I finally seen on T.V. what was going on.
             It is hard to believe that anything good could have come out of 9/11, but one thing did: all Americans unified and became even stronger as individuals and especially as a country. However, many terrible things resulted from 9/11. Thousands of innocent people were horrifically killed and countless numbers of people were effected because of what happened on that day. I feel sorry for everyone who was in any way effected on that day, but I have the greatest sympathy for all the rescue workers who lost their lives on that day just doing their job; in all honesty, all those people are true heroes to me. It was unbelievably sad watching the 9/11 video. I felt so bad watching the firefighters seem so helpless and not knowing what to do. I always had this idea that firefighters are something great for being so brave in their job; now I know just how brave they really are and what truly amazing people they are.
             Having to re-watch the planes hit the twin towers and come crashing down, hearing the bodies falling to the ground, and seeing the sheer panic and fear in everyone's eyes made me want to cry. I cannot even imagine what was going on in the rescue workers' heads. They all seemed scared and very angry at what was going on around them, but yet they knew that they could not lose their self-control. Since 9/11, I feel even greater pride saying that I am an American. I am sort of scared that there might be another attack on Americans, but I am not really conc...

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