9/11: Keep It From Happening Again
Every year teachers let me know that the post below about my experience living in Manhattan a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11 has become part of their classroom curriculum, so I continue to post it annually.
I think it’s especially important to post this year given the fact that the other day I overheard some guy ask: “Why should we care if a few Westerners want to join ISIS? What’s the worst that could happen?”
I’d like to think this guy is just some random butthole, but...
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Sep 10, 2014 04:13PM
Thank you so much for sharing this, it was so beautiful, and so sad. I'm so sorry for your losses, and the losses of those you know. RIP
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I read this every year. It really puts things in perspective, especially for someone who lives in Texas, so far away from it all. We will never forget.
I'm Spanish, I never read anything about it, I knew what people told me because I was a kid then and I was scared of what they told me back then. I just read this and I almost cried. I'm sorry for your losses and thank you for sharing it, now I think I should have read it before, I'm old enough to understand now. I've shared your post on twitter so maybe someone else read it. The only thing I remember about those days were that my older brother put up a poster of the Twin Towers on his wall to remember. It's still on his wall and I see it everyday so we will never forget either.
