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 god shed his grace on thee
Posted by: Karen from Latham
Monday January 14, 2002 @ 11:11 PST

my story begins when i arrive at college a little early that day with my friend mary (we carpool together on tuesday's). we walked into the campus center of hvcc and sat at a table around 9 am. at this point we had heard nothing....and then it happened. mary gets up to call her mom about a something she needed to ask her. i'll never forget the look on her face when her mother told her what happened, and her saying that she didn't believe it. offcourse, her mother still didn't know that much information about what was going on in nyc. mary told me and i jumped out of my seat saying "no, no this is impossible....it must have been a bomb or something". unfortunately, i was wrong. we headed over to a building on campus to check out the large screen tv there to see if the news was on. i remember walking in the doors, and people gathered all around in silence, watching the horror right in front of there eyes. i can recall hearing the newcaster screaming, "oh my god, mother of god, holy sh** another plane just hit!" and there i was staring in fear of what was happening, hearing the newscaster saying that they were possible hijackers that had done this. then, it happened. the twin towers just collapsed, both falling to the ground in a cloud of smoke. i covered my mouth with one hand as tears streamed down my face, and looked over at my friend and embraced her. we stood their holding eachother, crying for those people, those americans who were just going to work like we were just going to school. i quickly called my dad to make sure he was alright because he works at the state campus, and my mother right afterwards. we got in my car, and turned the radio on immediatly to find out another plane had hit the pentagon and soon after another in pennsilvania. i can't even begin to describe what was going through my head....the question of why, who, how? kept knawing at me. i was scared, sad, angry, and confused all at once. all i could think of were all the americans that died that day because an ignorant, selfish man wanted power and fear from us. but he didn't get what he wanted....instead he got rage, and loyalty to our country....he didn't weaken us, but only made us stronger. we are a nation, and that means united as one. for we will overcome this battle, and find him, for he can not hide from a country that has come together and will not stand to be broken. there are things that we have to change in america. we have to let the people know that it is safe, that this can't happen again. let them know that they can get on a plane, bus, train, ect. without the fear that something could happen. we need to tighten security at airports, and stations. i know i would rather feel safe, than worry about how long i have to wait in the airport. i think immigrants should have background checks, and kept up to date on their time they are allowed here. i am not racist, i don't want to give the wrong impression, but why come to our country, live here with freedom and rights and then do this to us. i think people need to keep their eyes open for situations like this, to prevent it from happening agian. wasn't it kind of weird that these hijackers went to flight school, but only wanted to learn how to control the plane? we need to start looking out for these kind of instances, because our country is not paying enough attention. i just hope that this country stays together and will work together in every way possible to keep us united...as the pledge of allegiance says "...with liberty, and justice for all." god bless america.