Personal Narrative: How American Lives Changed My Life
(Yeah, this is going to be a long one...so just be aware and you know forgive all the spelling and other errors because you know, I can't be trusted to edit.)
Today, 14 years ago, many (if not all) American's lives changed forever. At first for me it was surprise. How could someone do this, why would they, who was the cause of such pain and those answer came. Then I started asking questions like what did we do to them, to make such retaliation happen. That was clearly not the most American thing to do in some people's eye. I remember being in my honors American history class and being called un-American for thinking like that and how could we, the best country in the world, do anything wrong. I think that was the day I realized that I was going …show more content…
I would say what I thought and defended and still be open to hear what others had to say. Odd that I feel like that was my first lesson from this. But it really wasn't, the first was how a tragedy can bring people together. On that day and so many months after we came together, we were all American and all suffering. It was so beautiful, how much LOVE we had for our country and fellow citizens. I wish we could get some of that back that love and pride. Then we went to war. My brother, who had been living in VA, joined the Army and went to Iraq for the first time. I do feel ashamed that I wasn't there the first time he left, I don't remember why I wasn't there but I know I wasn't. And I am SO LUCKY to have had him come back from that first tour. Even luckier, that I could see him off and see him come back home every after that. 7 tours of duty and he came home each time and truly, there is *not a single day* that goes by that I am not thankful that my brother is here with us. My heart aches thinking about all of those people who didn't have their loved one come home. I know how much it hurts to just think of what could have happen and some moments, it's crippling. Also today, I always think of Dec. 7 1941, Pearl Harbor, which change so many lives. It
Today, 14 years ago, many (if not all) American's lives changed forever. At first for me it was surprise. How could someone do this, why would they, who was the cause of such pain and those answer came. Then I started asking questions like what did we do to them, to make such retaliation happen. That was clearly not the most American thing to do in some people's eye. I remember being in my honors American history class and being called un-American for thinking like that and how could we, the best country in the world, do anything wrong. I think that was the day I realized that I was going …show more content…
I would say what I thought and defended and still be open to hear what others had to say. Odd that I feel like that was my first lesson from this. But it really wasn't, the first was how a tragedy can bring people together. On that day and so many months after we came together, we were all American and all suffering. It was so beautiful, how much LOVE we had for our country and fellow citizens. I wish we could get some of that back that love and pride. Then we went to war. My brother, who had been living in VA, joined the Army and went to Iraq for the first time. I do feel ashamed that I wasn't there the first time he left, I don't remember why I wasn't there but I know I wasn't. And I am SO LUCKY to have had him come back from that first tour. Even luckier, that I could see him off and see him come back home every after that. 7 tours of duty and he came home each time and truly, there is *not a single day* that goes by that I am not thankful that my brother is here with us. My heart aches thinking about all of those people who didn't have their loved one come home. I know how much it hurts to just think of what could have happen and some moments, it's crippling. Also today, I always think of Dec. 7 1941, Pearl Harbor, which change so many lives. It