Ten years. September 11th, 2001. I had stepped out of the shower to hear the newsman saying "We're just getting a report out of New York that it seems a airplane has struck one of the towers of the World Trade Center. With that our world changed and never will it be the same. I stood there and watched the first image of the North Tower with the plume of blackish grey smoke surrounding the top of it. The camera was zooming in and the next thing I notice was all the sheets of paper that was silently floating to earth almost as thick as snow.
I thought for a second "How many?" How many lives have just starting spiraling out of control like these sheets of paper? Then I though how could this happen? How could a airplane hit a building in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world by accident and I realized, this wasn't a mistake. I reached and grabbed a blank VCR tape and started recording the day that change our world as a nation. Over the next few hours I, like the whole world, watched the terror of the act that knock us to our knees.
Later that evening I sat out my back yard and looked up to realize that for the first time in almost a century there was not a single commercial airplane in our skies over our great country. Even twelve hours later the world was still wondering what was coming next. Was this only the start? What was going to happen next? The biggest question twelve hours later in most of our minds changed from "How? to What if? And all we could do was watch, hope, and pray, because for the first time in a very long time the United States of America was not in control of what was happening inside our own nation. No longer did we feel safe, no longer did we feel that "well, it can't happen here", because it just had.
Over the next few days we all sat stunned, listened and watched the effects that these actions started having not only on our country but world-wide. The blame was starting to become very obvious. From a far land, a group of people felt that they must show to the people of the United States that we were not as invulnerable as we though we were. And to this day ten years later their actions have kept us in this state of questioning our safety. No longer do I feel as safe as before that day. To this day when I notice a commercial plane over one of our great cities I, just for a moment, stop whatever I'm doing and think "Please don't,"
To those people, that were responsible for 9/11, I want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry that somewhere back in time before that dreadful day our country had done something that made you feel this action had to be taken. We cannot just blame "them" for what happened. I am so sorry that Mankind as a whole has gotten to the point that we feel justified in taking another's life for our political gains. Because, in taking another's life I feel we have committed the ultimate sin to our God. This is not what he put us on this world for. So to him I pray "Lord I am sorry. Lord, Show us your way....
I thought for a second "How many?" How many lives have just starting spiraling out of control like these sheets of paper? Then I though how could this happen? How could a airplane hit a building in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world by accident and I realized, this wasn't a mistake. I reached and grabbed a blank VCR tape and started recording the day that change our world as a nation. Over the next few hours I, like the whole world, watched the terror of the act that knock us to our knees.
Later that evening I sat out my back yard and looked up to realize that for the first time in almost a century there was not a single commercial airplane in our skies over our great country. Even twelve hours later the world was still wondering what was coming next. Was this only the start? What was going to happen next? The biggest question twelve hours later in most of our minds changed from "How? to What if? And all we could do was watch, hope, and pray, because for the first time in a very long time the United States of America was not in control of what was happening inside our own nation. No longer did we feel safe, no longer did we feel that "well, it can't happen here", because it just had.
Over the next few days we all sat stunned, listened and watched the effects that these actions started having not only on our country but world-wide. The blame was starting to become very obvious. From a far land, a group of people felt that they must show to the people of the United States that we were not as invulnerable as we though we were. And to this day ten years later their actions have kept us in this state of questioning our safety. No longer do I feel as safe as before that day. To this day when I notice a commercial plane over one of our great cities I, just for a moment, stop whatever I'm doing and think "Please don't,"
To those people, that were responsible for 9/11, I want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry that somewhere back in time before that dreadful day our country had done something that made you feel this action had to be taken. We cannot just blame "them" for what happened. I am so sorry that Mankind as a whole has gotten to the point that we feel justified in taking another's life for our political gains. Because, in taking another's life I feel we have committed the ultimate sin to our God. This is not what he put us on this world for. So to him I pray "Lord I am sorry. Lord, Show us your way....
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