Reflection Essay On 9/11

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9/11 Reflective Essay

“you can be sure that American Spirit will prevail over this tragedy.” Colin Powell
This experience didn’t affect me until my third grade year when I actually understood it. I wasn’t alive to actually understand this but when I heard about this I wondered why these people did this to our country. This was a very sad, tragic time for The United States. It was good that our Nation came together to help.
This was a normal calm day in New York City when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. This happened at 8:46 a.m. At 9:03 a.m. Flight 175 crashed into the south tower. This nearly killed 3,000 people. The third plane hit the pentagon. And the fourth plane crashed into a field

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