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Why We Should Remember September 11, 2001 (By Johnny, aged 11 1/2) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Friday, September 10, 2004
Rated "PG" by the Author.
Johnny reflects and remembers on September 11, 2001, a day that changed the world as we once knew it.
I don't think I will ever get over that day and all that happened. Because of evil people, twin towers no longer stand tall in New York City, and many lives were lost.
I was at school when it happened; one minute, we were cutting up and carrying on, acting silly, but then the next, we stood around, our ears not believing what we were hearing. We had heard that America had been attacked by terrorists, and they hit the World Trade Center Towers, and they were now on fire; and another plane had just hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Like the towers that were burning in New York City, the Pentagon was also on fire. There was talk that many people had been killed, and that the number of people killed was in the hundreds, possibly the thousands.
At hearing the news, I felt sick. I felt sick because I couldn't believe that such a horrible crime would happen here in America, and I felt sick because it all seemed like a bad dream, and also my older brother, Erick, lived in New York City, not too far from where the towers stood. He could see them from his window, that was how close he was to them. I was scared that he had been hurt or killed in the attack, and at hearing the news, I started to cry.
I also wrote a letter to the Twin Towers, as a way of helping me cope with the situation, and I still have a copy of that letter to this day. I also did a letter two years after, and I may do one in a day or two, as a way of helping me cope with what had happened; and to help me understand what had happened..and WHY.
Tomorrow marks three years since September 11, 2001, happened, and there will no doubt be rebroadcasts of the events that took place; and many people will again see those horrible, awful sights that played on tv screens all over the world, time and time again. It was like a bad dream, and it still is today. I can't look at the New York City skyline without being reminded of what happened, and I lost friends in the attack; and my heart breaks for them and all those who lost loved ones. It turned out that not only Americans died: there were people from other countries who were there when the attacks happened, and their worlds changed too; and so the entire world was affected, not just America. This is why the attack was of such significance because it was a world-wide event.
I don't think I will ever get over that day and all that happened. Because of evil people, twin towers no longer stand tall in New York City, and many lives were lost.
