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... My grandmother and her generation enlisted after Pearl Harbor was attacked, my mother’s generation mourned the assassination of JFK, and we, well we have 9-11.
On the morning of Tuesday September, 11 I was in my debate classroom (100) when the librarian, Mr. ... The second reaction was fear. ...
I told them of the planes that had gone down at other locations across the US, and of the people who jumped from the highest windows to try to escape, and of the emergency workers who were trapped or dead along with many of the employees who were in the buildings. ... Up to this point my fellow classmates and been given a new definition of fear, of pain, of bravery, of a hero, of loss, and now, they had a new definition of evil. ... I explained to her that it would be like a foreign country nuking the US because they disagree with the principles of the KKK. She thought that because innocent people of the US had been killed, so should innocent people of Afghanistan. ...
So what is 9-11 to our generation? ... Everyone will remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard that the US had been the victim of terrorism.
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