A Day to Remember: Ten Years after 9/11

On September 11, 2011, several American Airlines planes took off into the air. It seemed like a normal day, just the regular routine. Until of course, 3 planes were hi-jacked, two of which crashed into it's target, the World Trade Center in New York's Twin Towers. One was directed into the Pentagon

Ten years after, the effects, the memory of it all is still strongly felt. I saw a post on Tumblr about the tribute of light dedicated to 9/11, where 88 bulbs are used to send a blue beam of light up to the New York skyline. Those lights would take the shape of the Twin Towers, exactly where they should've been. A few weeks back in my Religion class we were shown a movie, based on real recording and accounts of people on Flight 93, a flight that was hi-jacked on this tragic day. And now, on the last day of holiday, I am watching these back-to-back 9/11 documentaries on the National Geographic channel.

What I'm seeing is really saddening, really heart-breaking. How a single act of terror orchestrated by people with the wrong ideals and determination to even commit suicide to get their twisted visions realized has not only killed hundreds of people from all walks of life
(young and old, Americans, Asians or Europeans who were living in New York) but shook a nation to its core.

The families, friends of the victims and heroes were all affected by this. And it's really just unfair. People lost their lives to something that could've not have happened at all. All this tragedy and grieve and panic could've just have never been.

For someone like me, who was young and probably eating a bowl
of cereal and heading of to school, someone who was oblivious to 9/11, to feel so shaken by this, it's hard to imagine what people who were directly a part of this day must be feeling, even ten years after.

I turned from a president dealing with national issues to a war-time president. It was something I hadn't anticipated nor even wanted

This is what former President George W Bush said in the documentary/interview I just saw. He was visiting a class of little kids when he heard the news that "America is under attack".

We cannot change what has happened. But 9/11 is a part of history that we do not want to repeat, and should learn from.

My heart goes out to the friends of families of those whose lives were taken on 9/11. May God grant you serenity and patience to the upcoming days in your life. To those who have passed, Rest in Peace. You certainly have not been forgotten.

--Karin Novelia, Sending Condolences.