What were you doing when you heard the first news bulletin of the terrorist attacks on September 11th of 2001?
What did you think when you saw the live pictures of the twin towers in flames, then collapsing to the ground and the apocalyptic scene in the heart of America’s largest city?
What were your thoughts after watching a plane crash into the Pentagon?
And how did you react to the news that day of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 willingly sacrificing their lives to take on the terrorists and take down the plane believed headed toward the White House or U.S. Capitol?
Those are all questions that come back to us on every September 11th now.
For those who were not born or were too young to remember, today provides an important history lesson.
And for the families of the some 3,000 people who died that day, the emotions become raw again on every September 11th.
No American should ever forget that day.
For a while, it united us in a way that seems so distant now in our politically divided country today.
And maybe today we should also think about that.
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