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NEWS > U.S.A. > NATION MOURNS THE END OF 10 YEARS OF MOURNING 9/11
NATION MOURNS THE END OF 10 YEARS OF MOURNING 9/11
September 11 2011
New York, NY – Now that a decade has passed since that incredible and awful day, many Americans are both celebrating and mourning. Much has changed since that day; security is tighter, wars are being fought, but the biggest change has undoubtedly been the American psyche, to what it means to be American.
Unlike any event since the bombing of Pearl Habor, the attacks of 9/11 united the nation in ways seldom seen. There were no more divisions between people, no race, no religion, no north or south. For a brief time everyone in the country was American, a sentiment that still pervades whenever the topic of the attacks comes up. Those attacks helped the country unite, year after year, and now on the tenth anniversary they help to provide a kind of closure.
Ten years is, after all, a long time and now many people are looking to a new life, a life without the potent memory of those attacks constantly on their mind. For some though who have started to feel that the vibrancy of those memories has started to fade, as things tend to do, the loss of the memory of those events has become a source of mourning unto itself.
“It’s really sad coming here and seeing the tributes, but it’s not as bad as it used to be. That really sucks, really. I have to work myself up to thinking about the attacks 
and how sad I felt back then, it’s like a memory now,” said one local. “I was here when it happened, I watched it all on TV, heard all the sirens but it’s still really hard to remember what went on most of the time. Now I get sad about that.”
All over the city, thousands have gathered to work themselves into a frenzy of emotion to remember that fateful day, including at the site of the former World Trade Center.
“This is always a reminder of what happened that day because this is where it happened. I didn’t lose anyone in the attack, but I know someone who knows someone who did. It’s like a personal connection you know? I almost feel like I was there,” said a visitor from Montana. “I still remember watching the whole thing on TV. I watched when they grabbed those planes, I remember seeing them slam into the towers and the Pentagon just like it was yesterday. I can’t ever erase those images from my mind.”
Approximately 3000 people were killed in the attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
“I remember rushing down to the site when it happened, I remember watching the planes fly into the buildings. It was so...I don’t know how to put it into words. It was something I hope to never see again. I remember it like it was yesterday, all those people falling from the buildings. I remember running into the building and seeing people dying before my eyes. It was so sad,” said another local. “I even remember hearing the terrorists screaming as they flew into the buildings. Those are sounds I will never, ever, forget. It’s like it just happened yesterday.”
Next year’s anniversary will likely be moved to the 9th, which would put it on a Sunday when most people have the day off to mourn.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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