9/11/2001

I will never forget the events of 9/11/2001.  It was my senior year of high school and I was sitting in a history class.  A teacher from across the hall came running in our room and turned the tv on and only said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.  We sat there in shock watching the events unfold before our eyes.  I remember watching the second plane crash into the other tower and the tv reporters began speculating what might be the next target.  I can still hear the sounds of the people who made the decision to jump out of the towers in hopes that it would save them.  I remember the look on the people's faces who were in the area as it was all happening.  When the tv reporters started talking about other possible targets they kept mentioning the CDC here in Atlanta.  Even though I was a senior and almost 18 I honestly was scared. I don't think I was the only one who felt that way.  When the first tower fell I was in complete shock.  How could a building so huge just crash to the ground? I kept wondering how many people were still inside of it.  And then to see the other tower fall.  I don't remember if I cried while watching everything happen.  But to this day whenever I watch anything pertaining to 9/11 I cry.  I will never forget what happened on 9/11. It will be something that I share with my kids and grandkids.

The unity that our country experienced in the days after 9/11 was amazing.  Our country came together to help the people who were directly affected by the terrorist attack. American flags were flying on almost every home and car.  What happened to that unity? What happened to everyone being patriotic? Things sure have changed in the past 9 years.

It really gets my blood boiling that people want to build a Mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero.  Radical Muslims hijacked the planes and claimed they were doing it in the name of Allah. How can building a religious center for the very religion of the people who terrorized our nation be a good thing? I know that not all Muslims are radical.  I don't have a problem with any religion having a house of worship.  What I have a problem with is that there are hundreds of Mosques in New York already, why do they insist on building one so close to Ground Zero? I would feel the same way if a group of radical Christians, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, or atheists claimed responsibility for the attack.  I would not want a house of worship for their religion to be built anywhere near the place of the attack.    I think that the only house of worship that should be built near Ground Zero is the Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed when the towers collapsed. 

Have you forgotten what happened on 9/11? I know I never will