Remember The Time

18 years, 5 months, 6 days ago from today I could remember just like it happened yesterday, me being woken up early that morning by banging on my door in California. As I opened the door, a friend of mine was standing there with a strange look on his face telling me to turn on the t.v. to the news. Picking up the remote and turning on the t.v., I was shocked by the images that I was looking at, hoping that what I was seeing had to be a movie. I didn’t have to turn on a certain station to find the local news because on this day it was breaking news on every channel. Then they showed it again, a commercial passenger plane crashing into one of the twin towers in New York City. As I’m looking at the terrible site on my television screen, all I could say to myself was, “Who would be that crazy to fly a plane that low over New York City knowing all the tall buildings they have there?” Then as I was looking at the massive structure in flames and people in windows fighting to stay alive, all of a sudden another commercial plane goes crashing into the second tower next to the first one that was hit. Immediately, I was filled with all kind of emotions (sad, confused, disrespected, angry) as the news reporters began to tell the nation that this was not an accident but an terrorist attack on our country. September 11, 2001; was one time that I could remember in our nations history, we all put aside our differences and came together as a country. Even though it was years ago, many of us(if not all of us) in here today can pin point exactly what we was doing that morning when the world trade centers was struck by the enormous planes and crumbled to the ground on that September 11th morning.

I remember actually 18 years, 5 months, and 6 days ago; I was in California and woken up by someone beating on my door. As I rushed to the door and opened it, I wa

18 years, 5 months, 6 days ago from today I could remember just like it happened yesterday, me being woken up early that morning by banging on my door in California. As I opened the door, a friend of mine was standing there with a strange look on his face telling me to turn on the t.v. to the news. Picking up the remote and turning on the t.v., I was shocked by the images that I was looking at, hoping that what I was seeing had to be a movie. I didn’t have to turn on a certain station to find the local news because on this day it was breaking news on every channel. Then they showed it again, a commercial passenger plane crashing into one of the twin towers in New York City. As I’m looking at the terrible site on my television screen, all I could say to myself who would be that crazy to fly a plane that low over New York City knowing all the tall buildings they have there? Then as I was looking at the massive structure in flames and people in windows fighting to stay alive, all of a sudden another commercial plane goes crashing into the second tower next to the first one that was hit. Immediately, I was filled with all kind of emotions (sad, confused, disrespected, angry) as the news reporters began to tell the nation that this was not an accident but an terrorist attack on our country. September 11, 2001; was one time that I could remember in our nations history, we all put aside our differences and came together as a country. Even though it was years ago, many of us(if not all of us) in here today can pin point exactly what we was doing that morning when the world trade centers was struck by the enormous planes and crumbled to the ground on that September 11th morning.

Now if you go to the same location where the attack took place, there is 2 beautiful enormous pools that sit where the twin towers stood. Bronze panels surround the pool with the names of nearly 3,000 people who died in the 2001 attack and the world trade bombing in 1993. In the middle of the of each structure is a big empty space that can’t be filled and won’t be filled representing the ones that were lost. An event that happened years ago but a memorial built that will always allow us to reflect back and tell our future generations about the attack that happen in this country, plus; how it pulled us all together at that moment in time.

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