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#2310 | Wednesday, September 11th 2002
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I will never forget that day. The day our country was attacked, the day when lives were lost, and the day that changed me forever. I woke up that morning, not knowing what had happened, and expecting that it would be just another ordinary Tuesday at school. After I finished getting ready, I and my dad were walking to his truck down the street and suddenly he just burst out and said that the twin towers had been attacked. At the time, I didn’t know what they were but I didn’t know that once I got to school, everything would change.
I got to school and no one was doing anything, just watching the television and sitting quietly. I noticed that something wasn’t right and I listened even more closely to the television. I quickly learned what the twin towers were, what had happened to them, and why it was so important. We got released from school early that day and I spent the rest of it at home, thanking God for what I have and for not letting anyone I love die that day. I prayed for anyone who was lost and anyone who lost anyone.
Our country grew that day; not in mass or ground, but in mass of love and closeness. That love and closeness still remain and grow today, a year later, and I hope that it will forever. God bless America, my home sweet home!
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Katie | 14 | California
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#2309 | Wednesday, September 11th 2002
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On September 11, 2002 I was at home getting ready for school, when my mom yelled for me to come upstairs and see what happened to the World Trade Center. I was shocked and dismayed about what the hijackers did to the USA. I also thought that it was good that it happened to us because we have been so powerful and no one wanted to face us. I think that we were becoming a little to arrogant and using our power in ways it was not helping us, as in the people of the United States.
I grieved for those who lost their love ones. I had some friends that lost their family members and I tried my best to comfort them. If the hijackers were mad at the government why take it out on innocent people? I think they also went a little too over board when they crashed a third plane into the pentagon. Haven’t we suffered enough? For all those firemen, policemen, and innocent victims that lost their lives I hurt for you and your family. What they did was not right and can not be explained but it has made the USA stronger. People in NY will stop and say hello or help a complete stranger that is a huge change since what it had use to be. I am also sad that the world changed because we were shown someone can attack us. We should be already nice to other people and help other people when we see that they need help, we should not start doing this just because innocent lives were taken, we should do it because that’s the right thing to do.
I will never forget the day when the World Trade Center collapsed. It is one of those things that will be stuck in your mind like a movie going through your head. It hurts to see it over and over again but it must be shown to the world that you can never put down your defense. I would like to give my deepest apology and love to those who have suffered; we are going to get through and when we do you will be consider a hero and your love ones will be honored for days to come.
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Samantha | 14 | California
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#2308 | Wednesday, September 11th 2002
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I was in history class and shall never forget the day, or what I was doing.
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Schylene | 14 | Fiji
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#2307 | Wednesday, September 11th 2002
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Where I Was
On September 11, 2001, I was in my bedroom listing to radio to see if my favorite baseball team had won the night before. That’s when I heard of the attacks. I was really shocked because I thought that nothing like that could ever happen to America. I was starting to get changed when I heard of the tragic news. I rushed out of my room and sat myself in front of the television and watched the second airplane fly right into the second tower!! It made me feel really crummy. When I got to school, all of the eight graders were gathered together and were crying. We were supposed to have our SAT tests that day, but our teacher decided not to give it to us. We also got out of school right after we got there because the principal thought that it was a time of mourning and we should be with our parents. If the attacks never happened, I wonder what it would be like today, the one year anniversary of September 11.
Amy Mathews
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amy | 14 | California
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#2305 | Wednesday, September 11th 2002
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I was eating my breakfast and my dad had gone back to his room to get his tie and I was watching the stupid today show (no offence) and I saw a plane go into the world trade center so I yelled for my dad to come out to the living room to see. As soon as he saw it he was this is not good. And I was like no duh dad a plane just crashed into a building you no that's not good. But I had to go to school so my mom and I listened to what was going on in New York on the radio. I was suprised that school was open. as soon as I got to school all of us talked about what was going on and about one hour later my vice principal announced that school was closed and that they would call our parents to come pick us up. I got picked up right away because my friend lives a couple blocks away. We went back to her house and watched the horror on TV. We thought it was armegedon. Then my mom got off work and came to pick me up and we went home and called all our relatives in the New York area. Then we just sat there for like 3 hours and watched TV till my mom couldn't take anymore of the terror on the TV. So we decided to get out of the darkness of our house and go on a bike ride. It helped her lot to just get her mind off of it. One year later we as a country have grown closer and become one family. The family of the United States of America!!!!
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morgan | 14 | California
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