Septemer 11 Casue And Effects

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Throughout the course of a person’s life there are events that change the path of life and how the person will live and look at life in the future. As in my life I have witnessed and experienced events that have changed the way I live today. The events of September 11, 2001 not only changed my life but millions of people and how we all live today.
As I was walking through the halls at the beginning of my senior year at Troy High I would never have thought that this great nation would be attacked and thousands of our friends and family would not be here the next morning when we awake. I was walking to my second period class at around 8:10am on September 11 when I looked into a classroom and saw one of the towers on fire. AT first I thought nothing of it and continued to class. When I arrived to my class the TV was not one and we started off the class as normal. However when a few of the late students came in they had looks of fear and terror. The teacher asked why they were late and the responded with “I was watching the twin towers burn on TV”. When the teacher questioned there response she turned on the TV soon enough the second plane hit a few minutes after that the Pentagon was attacked. As we watched with silence and tears the carnage that unfolded when the towers came down with thousands of people still trapped inside. At this time personally I did not know what to think but I did know that this was the most horrifying thing that I had ever seen. In the hours to come we would find out that our nation had been attacked by not another nation but a face less group of terrorist.
Today one year and two months later our society has recovered somewhat and the huge piles of ruble from what were two gigantic towers is cleaned up. However inside of every American lives the fear of what might happen next. We are now taking the next step to make sure every American can live in a prosperous and free nation. The United ...