History Assignment

I first interviewed my mother. She was 29 years old at the time of 9/11, living in Arizona. She was getting ready for work/school and turned on the news like she did every other morning. Of course, this terrible event was all over the news and at the point when she turned it on, the first plane had hit the tower and it was being reported as an “accident.” At first, she believed the pilot may have suffered a heart attack or other medical condition while controlling the plane, therefore losing control and flying into the tower. She was sadden by this, thinking it an accident. But her sorrow quickly turned to grief as she watched the second plane hit the other tower. We thankfully did not have any families members in the area at the time of the attack, however my mother cried and prayed for the families that lost loved ones that terrible day. We did not have any travel plans during or around the time of the attack and since we had not family members in the area, communication was not a problem. However, my mom would definitely say the attacks affect her personally. They were a horrific attack on our country and every time we travel we are reminded of how they changed air travel in America, and every time she finds herself sitting on an airplane, she can’t help but think about how terrifying that it must of been for those onboard those flights involved in the attacks. When she is flying she still finds herself scanning the aircraft, watching the faces and behaviors of the other passengers, just wondering. She had never heard of Osama Bin Laden and said it took her a while to be able to even be able to say/remember his name correctly. She could not recall exactly where she was when she heard the news that Bin Laden had been killed, bu...

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...mitment that he would find his brother’s remains and help rebuild Ground Zero. After shifted through 10 stories or more of rubble for weeks, the remains still had not been recovered. However, Brian would get to see his dream of Ground Zero be rebuilt. After nine months and thousands of workers, the recovery process was finished and the rebuilding began. A memorial was also to be built, which I had the opportunity to visit during my trip to the East Coast. It is so bittersweet because the memorial is so beautiful, but its history and the reason why it is here is terribly sad. No matter where in the nation someone was, everyone felt the devastation of the 9/11 attack; whether it was directly losing a family member or indirectly watching it affect America. This infamous event will go down in the history books, but hopefully no other attack as devastating will join it.