9/11

16 years has passed, huh?

Wow. It has been a long time.

To all of the families of those who passed away on that infamous day, I give my sincere condolences. It truly was a dark day in modern American history. It was also one that changed the very landscape of this country forever. The painful atrocity of 9/11 has prompted me to write this improptu entry about what I was doing when the two planes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of that day.


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Well, it happened in 2001, and, if I remember correctly, I was 4 years old at the time. I didn't go to school yet so I guess I stayed at my home and played with my mother all throughout the day. The T.V., as it has always been, was on at the time in front of me. Then, before I knew it, at around 9:00-9:30 A.M., the channel we were watching abruptly cut off to the news. News has suddenly broken out of New York saying that something happened to the towers.

"Towers?", was what I thought when I first heard of the WTC.

Strange. I didn't know towers existed in this time. I thought towers were only structures made from the ancient times. You know the towers I'm talking about, reader. Those blocks of stones stacked on top of one another to make a tower were the ones I was thinking of when I first heard the news. However, that changed when the news people then showed live images of New York City. The two tall buildings that stood out amidst the blue sky and grandiose skyline were covered in smoke. That's what it looked like for a while.

Then, suddenly, I saw people on the roads running for their lives from what appeared to be a wave of smoke or smog coming their way. I didn't know where that came from. Once again, I thought, "Strange."

I didn't know what was happening.


"No, well, DUH, Pedro! You were 4 back then!"

I know, I know. I was just a kid who was amazed at what was happening on the screen. I just simply saw a spectacle that was unfolding before my eyes.  Fast forward to that same night, when I was watching the news again right before I went to sleep, I once again saw those people running away from the smoke. It turned out something fell from the sky which caused all of the consequential uproar.


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Years passed before I found out what happened on that day. Thousands of people died on that day thanks to other people who were practicing terrorism.

That's just wrong. No innocent civilian should die at the hands of those who discarded them like cheap fodder. Life is an invaluable thing. It can't be replaced once it's gone. Please, I hope for those who are reading this can understand that fact. No one will ever forget what happened on 9/11. I won't. You won't either. We all won't.