I believe everyone who was alive on that fateful day remembers clearly what they were doing at the precise moment they found out that America, land of the free and home of the brave, was under attack.
I was getting ready for work, listening to and catching a peek, now and again, of Fox and Friends, when a bulletin came across that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. What a horrible accident, or so we thought. The news began a live feed of the tower, with smoke pouring out of her windows. The reporters questioned whether or not this could be a terrorist attack....but that was mere speculation.....until.
About 10 or 15 minutes later, as I sat glued to the television, and the sight of the tower burning, another plane came around and flew directly into the second tower. This was no accident. America was under attack.
I fell to my knees, overcome with fear, as tears began to run down my cheeks. I could not believe what I had just witnessed.
I remember that evening, on my way home from work, a man standing along the highway with an American flag...just standing there. If you didn't own a flag, you went to the store to buy one and proudly hung it on your house. Soon, cities and town across the country, were awash in red, white and blue. There were flags hanging from houses and on cars and trucks and boats...they were everywhere. It didn't matter if you were white or black, young or old, Christian or Jew, Republican or Democrat. We were united and we were strong, but after nine years, all those things that "didn't matter", seem to matter now. Have we forgotten what happened? Are we to believe Newsweek's article that says the United Stated "overreacted"? (http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/zakaria-why-america-overreacted-to-9-11.html) I don't think so, nor do I think most Americans believe that as well.
We should take pause on September 11th to remember, and never forget, what was done to all of us by terrorists that hate us and everything we stand for.
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