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This day is one that will live in American History and American Hearts. It was a day of such shock and horror at what we saw on our televisions and in person. I still feel numb and yet incredibly sick at the same time when I think about it. A terrorist attack on American soil. It seemed like such an unfathomable possiblity at the time. Even with Pearl Harbor, and other such incidences in our past. They are so few and far between that we forget that the possiblity still exists.

I was still in bed, just waking up. My husband was on the computer looking at the news, he said "A plane crashed into the WTC." I sat up and looked at him, "What do you mean a plane crashed into the WTC?" The though that it was a small jet was running through my mind. The news clip wasn't really giving a lot of details, it had apparenlty just happened and he had logged on just in time to see the first headline.

We turned on the television, by this time my daughter had crawled into bed with me. My mom was scurrying around downstairs getting breakfast ready, we yelled down for her to turn on her television. We watched the papers falling, people crying and bleeding. The firefighters, police officers and others sworn to uphold justice in our country in complete dissaray. Our unsung heroes.

We continued to watch in horror as a second plane crashed into the second tower. What did this mean? No one had any idea why this had happened. Americans banded together as never before to help one another. Complete strangers leaning on one another. Any source of comfort was welcome, even if just an encouraging smile from across the debris strewn street. The streets all over America were silent. In awe of the tragedy that had just assaulted our homeland.

Today we remember those we love as well as those we never knew. We remember the scar on the NYC skyline where the towers once stood. It still hurts to watch older movies, that show the skyline with the towers. Not one American alive that day will be the same person before they were before the first plane hit. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. We are perhaps more compassionate, more caring toward the neighbor we don't understand, we smile more at strangers passing us on the street. We are more united, stronger Americans.

We will not stand for homeland terrorism. Or any terrorism for that matter. Everyone deserves to be free.