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9/11. I was still living in America when it happened, but I was only five years old, much too young to grasp how terrifying, how horrible, how tragic that day was. You can tell a five year old that two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, what you can’t tell them is how that one act of terror would come to shake the entire world’s sense of security. How it would leave thousands of families scarred and an entire city breathless and strangled amidst the chaos and the smoke and the flames - The world lost its innocence that day. Everyone, man and woman, young and old, were all exposed to the crashing twin towers. But even more than that, everyone was exposed to how capable man is of evil. That’s why this event resonated, and continues to, all over the world. Because it wasn’t just the loss and the heartbreak that we could relate to, but the fear. New York was forced to look evil in the eye that day, and the rest of the world was forced to watch. But what I’m realizing is that 9/11 wasn’t just a day of loss. Here’s something the terrorists didn’t anticipate: When faced with the worst of evils, man is propelled to perform the noblest of acts. This was demonstrated by all the firefighters and policemen who sacrificed their lives to save people from the rubble, to extinguish the flames, to carry people out of buildings no matter how tired they were. This was demonstrated by those on Flight 93, the flight supposedly targeted at the White House. The passengers revolted against the hijackers and successfully crashed their plane into an open field - Killing everyone on board, but saving what could have been thousands of people in the potential target. In the end, one act of terror spurred a hundred acts of heroism - And showed the world that for all the evil man is capable of, he sure is capable of a lot of good, too. Everyone was united that day, victim or not. There is pain and there is loss but when seeing all the sacrifice and all the bravery and all the courage that happened that day, it sure is hard to be hopeless.  My heart is both broken and warmed. Broken for all the lives lost that day, and for everything and everyone they have left behind. Warmed because none of it was in vain. Ten years, and New York is standing and beautiful and strong as ever. Much has changed since 2001, and 9/11 is the reason for a lot of it. But I’d like to believe that America has better days ahead. What happened on that day will leave a very permanent mark, but marks are not anything to be ashamed of. Never Forget is the famous slogan of that day. So my heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the victims in all four flights, the victims in the World Trade Center, the victims in the Pentagon, the lives of those they have left behind. America’s darkest day, yes, but much about the goodness of humanity was proved that day, too. Lives lost but not in vain, a city scarred but not forever. Love you, New York :*

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9/11. I was still living in America when it happened, but I was only five years old, much too young to grasp how terrifying, how horrible, how tragic that day was. You can tell a five year old that two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, what you can’t tell them is how that one act of terror would come to shake the entire world’s sense of security. How it would leave thousands of families scarred and an entire city breathless and strangled amidst the chaos and the smoke and the flames - The world lost its innocence that day. Everyone, man and woman, young and old, were all exposed to the crashing twin towers. But even more than that, everyone was exposed to how capable man is of evil. That’s why this event resonated, and continues to, all over the world. Because it wasn’t just the loss and the heartbreak that we could relate to, but the fear. New York was forced to look evil in the eye that day, and the rest of the world was forced to watch.

But what I’m realizing is that 9/11 wasn’t just a day of loss. Here’s something the terrorists didn’t anticipate: When faced with the worst of evils, man is propelled to perform the noblest of acts. This was demonstrated by all the firefighters and policemen who sacrificed their lives to save people from the rubble, to extinguish the flames, to carry people out of buildings no matter how tired they were. This was demonstrated by those on Flight 93, the flight supposedly targeted at the White House. The passengers revolted against the hijackers and successfully crashed their plane into an open field - Killing everyone on board, but saving what could have been thousands of people in the potential target. In the end, one act of terror spurred a hundred acts of heroism - And showed the world that for all the evil man is capable of, he sure is capable of a lot of good, too. Everyone was united that day, victim or not. There is pain and there is loss but when seeing all the sacrifice and all the bravery and all the courage that happened that day, it sure is hard to be hopeless. 

My heart is both broken and warmed. Broken for all the lives lost that day, and for everything and everyone they have left behind. Warmed because none of it was in vain. Ten years, and New York is standing and beautiful and strong as ever. Much has changed since 2001, and 9/11 is the reason for a lot of it. But I’d like to believe that America has better days ahead. What happened on that day will leave a very permanent mark, but marks are not anything to be ashamed of. Never Forget is the famous slogan of that day. So my heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the victims in all four flights, the victims in the World Trade Center, the victims in the Pentagon, the lives of those they have left behind. America’s darkest day, yes, but much about the goodness of humanity was proved that day, too. Lives lost but not in vain, a city scarred but not forever. Love you, New York :*

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