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So, I was just in the process of writing my September 11th memories and my browser crashed. I was about three quarters of the way through my rather long and emotional weightyaccount when it happened, and I just can't see subjecting myself to retelling the taxing story.
Thinking about how stressful it can be to recount the day, I can't help but ...
Today the nation commemorates the seventh anniversary of September 11. Ceremonies were held throughout the country and citizens spent moments of silence remembering the nearly 3,000 Americans that had been killed.
What can I remember from that day seven years ago? I was in seventh grade, sitting in class when the secretary of my school rushed ...
Until this very day, September 11th, 2001 haunts my dreams. It’s a reoccurring nightmare that I can never forget it no matter how hard I try.
And so, the moment when I heard that our country was under attack is permanently etched into my memory, and every year the events of that fateful day replay themselves in my mind’s eye with crystal clear...
Ironically, I was in journalism class and I had no idea. So much for being up on the news. It wasn’t until the next period that I heard anything. My teacher made an announcement that a plane had hit the World Trade Center, but no one knew what was going on. We filed in, sat in our assigned seats and took our math test. It was just like any other...
On September 11, 2001, I was still a high school student. I wore braces and was reading The Great Gatsby for the first time and had never heard of al-Qaeda or jihads. There was a telephone call to the classroom, and my teachers brought a television out into the hallway. Initially, none of us really understood the magnitude or gravity of the situ...
They say that September 11th is our generation’s “moment,” like the kind of moment our parents had when JFK got assassinated or our grandparents experienced during “Pearl Harbor.” In psychology it’s called a flash memory, because it’s a lot like looking at a photograph. You remember everything you were doing, everything in the room, everything a...
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