9/11, Twin Towers

Extremely off topic here, but a small discussion about 9/11. It was nine years ago. I was driving into work and I always listened to CD's instead of the radio. After putting in 25 minutes on the road, I got to work. Just your normal day, lots to do. When I got there I was in my office and one of my co-workers called me into their office and told me that an airplane had just flown into the Twin Towers. How horrible I thought. And, quite honestly, that was the first time I had ever heard of the Twin Towers. I, admittedly, didn't ever pay much attention to things like that. I was young and that was definitely on my list of top priorities. Where I worked at the time we had TV's for our patients to watch while they were getting their treatments, so I went out on the floor and turned one of them on to the news. Right as I was turning it on, the second plane hit. What a horrific sight it was, to see all of that destruction happen so quickly. There were so many people right there, not to mention the people in the planes. And then news came in that there were more planes in the air, and one was headed for the Pentagon. How could this be happening? That was all I could think. There was no way in the world that we, the United States of America, was being attacked on our own soil. We are too strong, secure, and powerful for that to happen. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is, we were being attacked. Terrorists, extremists, had hijacked OUR airplanes and used them to kill our own people. And then we had the rescuers. How can we ever forget those people who gave their lives that day? New York firefighters, police officers, and many, many others gave their lives that day to try and save the people who were in the towers when the planes hit. Both towers fell, many people died, a war has been raging on since that day, and none of us will ever forget. Watch this video, it is a tribute to the people who lost their lives that day, and it is powerful.