indifan101
09-01-2006, 03:18 PM
On September the 11, 2001 at 9:00am, we witnessed an event that would change our lives and our feelings forever. Four planes that day would devistate and entire nation and bring a great deal of pain and agony to our hearts. We watched as they flew into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and crashed into Pennsylvania. That day we can never forget. A day where 30,000 died instantly. A day where smoke surrounded New York City and debris fell from every corner of the sky. Then we watched in horror as the first tower collapsed leaving hundreds buried alive into it's rubble. Then half an hour later came down the other doing the same as it's twin. Thousands of lives were silenced that day, and our eyes filled with shock, tears, fear and devistation were fixated on nothing but the tv. You could hear the wind through the grass that day. We were scared and confused that how could something like this happen and to America? The most secure country in the world? We were wrong. this couldn't happen to us? Could it? It could and it did. We saw every race of people that day help and save one another and carry others to safety and help those who needed it so. We watched a display of what heroism really is. We saw firemen, medics, police, construction workers, postal men run into those buildings to save the ones who were trapped or trying to escape. Those were true heros. Everyday people risking their lives to save another life. Nobody was selfish that day. Everyone was together, no matter what race, ethnicity, religion or color, everyone pulled their part to help. And when the day was coming to a close sounds of agony, pain, loss, frusteration, sorrow and dispair filled the streets. Tears rolled down everyone's faces with red watery eyes filled with disbelief. That day was the most horrorible sight my eyes ever layed witness to. My life would change forever. All of ours did and we would never forget the firemen who raised the flag on the pole, the police saving the trapped, people helping out the resuce team clearing out rubble and local resturants donating food to the workers who dug from morning until night. Those moments showed what America really is. We aren't a melting pot or a blanket made from different thread, were a family. Even though we don't know eachother well enough to be friends we are all under a nation under one flag, one constitution, one house and one race. That my friends is American. We are all Americans and what happened on 9/11 proved that we are able to get along and live together. If we all worked together like those heros that day, the ones who weren't selfish or afriad, then maybe we can live in peace. But lest we never forget the faces, acts, events, saviours, heros or people that day because they will always be apart of our memories till the day we leave this earth.