September 11th: An incident charged with strong emotion such as love, fear, anger, hate, joy, quilt, embarrassment or jealousy.

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An incident charged with strong emotion such as love, fear, anger, hate, joy, quilt, embarrassment or jealousy.

September 11th, 2001 was definily a day, which had an impact in my life.

I can remember it clearly, almost like if it happened yesterday. It was a normal Tuesday morning; I had just arrived at work. A few minutes later my co-worker walks in the door with the horrible news. At first I didn't want to believe it, I thought it was a joke. My first impression was the Twin Towers are not hard to miss, they are pretty tall. Was the pilot drunk? Then minutes later, I learned that a second plane hit the other Tower. That's when I sat back and thought for a minute. This was no joke; it was some kind of attack. A terrorist attack perhaps!

I immediately began to listen to the radio, so that I would be informed.

I was very sad and confused. I had a mixture of different feelings. I could only try to imagine what those people were going through. I could only hear them scream and cry, because there was no television at the office. I spent that day trying to look for answers and trying to think why us. Who hates us this much, to do something as terrible as to highjack our own planes and crash them into our own buildings? All those questions remained unanswered. Until I learned who and what countries; were behind it all. I then felt very angry, I felt hatred toward them and I was a bit scare as well. But we all stood by each other and began to help one another. We came together as one Nation and as one big family. I then felt secured and confident. I felt that by...