Remember 9/11

The morning of September 11th, 2001, I woke up and I remember my Mom getting a phone call before my brothers and I left for school, the person on the phone said turn on the TV. My Mom did without knowing what she was going to experience. We all were sitting on our couch watching the TV and we all thought that they were replaying what had happened. Then we found out that it was live feed and we watched as the second twin tower was hit by an airplane. It was very emotional. My family had been in New York 3 weeks before the 11th. I remember standing in front of the World Trade Center buildings getting my picture taken. It was spooky watching the TV and know that they were gone. It reminds me of my trip to Israel a few years later. I was traveling around with my family, and one day we were in this small village by the border and the next day we heard on the radio that the village we were just in was bombed and gone. I was in shock how this could happen and it reminded me of when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by the planes. I don't think that at the time I really understood that it was a terrorist attack, but I knew that it was bad and that it couldn't have been an accident. The date of September 11th is more significant to me than just the attacks on our Country, on September 11th, 2004 was my Bat Miztvah. It was a big deal, especially because we had the date before the event of the twin towers and we kept the date to signify the remembrance. During the service we had a moment of silence to remember those who had died. It made the ceremony more meaningful than it already was. I think that to everyone in the United States of America, September 11th means something to everyone. Everyone might view it differently or that date might have more meaning or less meaning to people, but I think that Septmeber 11th is a meaningful date that will be remembered.