I'm sitting here, in my family's home office, listening to planes fly by. Norad is not even two hours to the south. I'm sitting here. I'm 16. Is this going to be the defining moment for my generation? People in the past have asked, "where were you, December 7th, when you heard about Pearl Harbor?" They have asked "Where were you when we dropped the atomic bomb?" They have asked, "where were you, when Kennedy was assasinated?" And now they will ask, "where were you, on September Eleventh....Two Thousand and One?" My response? Chemistry...first period. I was in chemistry class when the sanctity of democracy was trespassed, and the nation stumbled. It's up to my generation to protect our nation. And if it comes to it, I'm positive we're in big trouble. The Majority of my generation, saying 15-20 do nothing but smoke weed, get drunk, and party. Of course, they get straight As, they are the popular kids...but we know nothing about life, and the viciousness of it! Girls in my classes left crying because they knew someone that presumably died. Girls that knew some one in Columbine, in Oklahoma City...girls that look for any national tragedy to become one of their own. Where was I? Where were you?
"Today is a day that will forever live in infamy...."
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