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.
Turly a bad day, but help me out withthe numbers, I may be off,
2,602 died and 24 are sill missing from World trade towers
American Flight 11, 88 dead
United 175 59 dead
125 dead in Pentagon
Aerican flight 77 59 dead
Shanksville United flight 93, 40 dead
that makes 2,973 died, 24 missing
don't get me wrong that is 2,973 too many (except for the terrorists, but not quite 30,000 which is a bit more.
" A day where 30,000 died instantly"
Maybe, but only if you factor in every other person who died anywhere else that day, of natural causes or not.... Some folks estiamte that as many as 153,000 people die globally per day. The death toll of the terrorist attack on Sept 11th didn't come anywhere NEAR 30,000. That number is inflated by a factor of 10.
"an event that would change our lives and our feelings forever"
Overall, it doesn't seem to have changed anything really.....
1297 Scots under William Wallace defeat the English at Stirling Bridge.
1916 The "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in Cooperstown, New York
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1924 Tom Landry NFL coach was born
1297 Scots under William Wallace defeat the English at Stirling Bridge.
1916 The "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in Cooperstown, New York
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1924 Tom Landry NFL coach was born
Also, the date the Dude writes on his check at the start of the Big Lebowski. . .
