I wish I could say I remember clearly where I was when the Twin Towers are struck. However, I don’t even remember being sent home early from school! All that comes to mind is some news footage they showed us on the TV in the classroom depicting some burning buildings, but I’m not sure if that was during the actual event or afterwards.
Regardless of whether or not I remember what occurred on September 11, 2001, I have learned what has happened since. And ten years since, we are still living out the aftermath. Terrorism has become a permanent part of our vocabulary, and New York is still scarred from the brutality of that one event. Muslims, particularly Arab Muslims, are feared because some deviants allied themselves with the religion of Islam, and we are still fighting wars so as to eradicate an improbable enemy. Still, there are more positive things to note: one of the world’s most dangerous criminals is no longer apart of this world, and the USA is hunting down the rest of his organization; Americans have been united in ways that have not been seen since post-WWII, and, perhaps most importantly, we are still going strong. That’s enough to say the terrorists did not win on that horrific day exactly ten years ago.
May the next ten years see a peaceful resolution to the war on terror and that those who would create fear and destruction to serve their own agendas be stopped and put away where they can harm no one. God bless America.
Rami Ungar The Writer 