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nyc As we get out of the tunnel, I hear a really loud noise. I look up, and I see a plane flying so low. It is about 100 feet above the car. I feel my heart start to pound, my stomach begins to twist and turn, and I feel like throwing up all of my breakfast. Something isn’t right. I turn my face and look inside the car next to me; by the expression on their faces, I could tell that they feel uncertainty too. I look up again, and it seems like theplane is going to crash into one of the towers. I think to myself, “No way.” By the time I am done saying this in my head, it happened. A plane went right through one of the Twin Towers. The flames start to rise out of the building. I had ever seen a building on fire in my entire life. It looks like a movie. The flames go straight up into the air and form black clouds. All of a sudden, traffic came to a halt. My mother snaps out of the state of shock she was in. Over and over again she mutters, “We have to get out of New York now.” The only thing I can do is stare at her. Nothing comes out of my mouth. It is just a moment of silence. My mom is trying so hard to get to the other tunnel, so we can go to New Jersey. However, there is no sense in trying. Traffic is not moving at all. People get out of their cars and just stand there helpless. Tears begin to run down my face. When I look over, my mother is in the same condition I am in, but she is trying to hide it. She does not want me to be scared. She is not fooling anyone because her nose starts to turn red, and she is trying to tilt her head back so the tears would stay inside of her eyes. A stage of shock is the only way I can describe it. It feels like ten minutes pass by, and the sound of another plane is slowly becoming louder, “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” It is flying over our heads. By this time, I know exactly where this one is headed, but I still try to lie to myself. Everyone is just staring and hoping that what they are thinking cannot be possibly happening, but it happened. The second plane hits, and all of a sudden traffic starts moving. Everyone is trying to get out, but tunnels are closed. There is no way in or out. We are stuck. My mother parks the car, and we just watch and cry. What I saw had a strong impact on me psychologically. I had never, in a million years, thought that I would ever have to witness something like this. At first, I couldn’t sleep, eat or talk. I just sat there confused. I felt like someone ripped my heart out of my body. I cried so much that my body felt empty inside. Tears were just coming out of my eyes for no reason. It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life. I looked a mess. I had black bags underneath my eyes, and I didn’t say a word for about 12 hours. When I tried to say something, you couldn’t understand me because I had to breath after ever word that came out of my mouth. Watching the TV made it worst because they showed the videotapes over and over again on every single channel. I couldn’t get away from it. I couldn’t get it out of head. I did not know what to do with myself. The next day I found out that my brother, a firefighter in New York, went to help out. He was the first squad that was called in. My mother and I were going to visit him before I left. My brother was one of the many that never got out. Seeing it happen in front of my face affected me more than everyone else, but when I found out about my brother I lost all faith in everything. The truth is that I don’t belief that I was there. I keep saying to myself that it never really happened. At first, I felt guilty. Why did not I call 911? Why didn’t I do something about it? I blamed myself for not calling my brother and asking him to come shopping with my mother and I. I thought I could have saved him somehow. My father finally took the initiative to take my mother and me to the hospital because they provided free help with a psychiatrist. At first I felt very uncomfortable talking to a stranger about how I was feeling inside. After the third day I felt like I had to let it out. The psychiatrist asked me lots of questions like why I felt like it was my fault. She helped me understand that I wasn’t the only one feeling this way. After this visit, I stopped going. I am the type of person that likes to keep everything inside. This tragedy has definitely impacted my life in more ways than one. I use to love to travel all the time with my parents, but now I either drive or a take the train. I am so scared of going on an airplane, and I think this fear will be instilled in me for the rest of my life. I do not think I will ever let my children fly on a plane alone like my parents use to let me when I was little. This will definitely change my future because I had planned to live, and work in New York once I finished school. I am definitely not going to live in any major city. I plan to keep a low profile somewhere in the suburbs. Why did this happen? A senile man that has no heart caused this disaster. This man thought that this would change the freedoms that Americans had. No one would have ever thought that someone so heartless could have every existed. Blowing things up doesn’t help anyone get what they want. I understand that not everyone likes America, but to kill innocent people just does not make sense. I guess you must be a criminal to understand one. National security is another factor that I question. We spend so much money on government programs like the CIA, FBI and other agencies, and yet something like this still happened. They reported that some of the men that were on the plane were under investigation. Everyone knows that the government loves to interfere with everyone’s business. Instead of protecting our country, they are more concerned with taking people to court for not paying their taxes. The government could definitely have prevented this from happening. I have slowly pulled myself together, and am trying to get on with my life. In the future, I hope that our government will regulate the immigrants that come into this country, so that we can prevent something like this from ever happening again. People should have some kind of background check. Another improvement that they need to reinforce is security in airports, and other public places. The American government needs to take control, and the American people need to understand and accept that some of the rights will be taken away. We need to understand that if we want to see improvement we must go through change. These changes might be easy to endure and others might not be. Although Bin Laden has won part of the war, I cannot let him change the way I live because if I do he will win the war. Bibliography:

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