4 Years Ago

4 years ago, I was in fifth grade. 4 years ago, I was just beginning middle school. 4 years ago, the American way of life changed. 4 years ago, the Pentagon was attacked. 4 years ago, two towers collapsed. 4 years ago, thousands were killed. 4 years ago, the worst nightmare ever to occur on America, the believed impossible happened, and it forever changed a nation and a world. 9/11 is remembered today in the wake of another tradegy in the Gulf Coast, the destruction that Hurricane Katrina has left in her wake. It seems that September will always be remembered for the worst reasons as the workers, and families try to rebuild there lives in the Gulf Coast, as the people had in New York and the rest of the United States had to 4 years ago. It's amazing, 4 years changes a lot, and so another day begins, and another day ends. The only difference between this day and all the others is that something unexpected happened 4 years ago, and it will forever be remembered. No matter how much we want to go back and change it and make a difference, we can't. The only difference we can make is in the future. We survived 9/11 and we continue to live on through it. 4 years and 1 day ago, this nation, the United States, was different, and was thought to be a safe and good place to live. 4 years ago today, that thought, that way of life, changed, and it will, most likely, never change back. Sadly, that's the way life goes and there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. On September 11, 2001, everything changed and nothing will ever be the same.
In rembrance of those who died and those affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001