The day after...the sun came up, the flags dropped to half staff and we began our new normal. The nation was in shock. Did this really happen or was it a shared nightmare? The answer? Yes, it really happened and we were living in a shared nightmare. The frantic search for survivors continued, the tears flowed, travel came to a standstill, and the world watched us stumble, then catch each other and stand back up. We mourned, cried, prayed, sang, held each other up, and began to rise again, determined that terrorists would not bring us to our knees. People from all over the world prayed and cried with us, and sent us messages of sympathy, hope, and encouragement, and offers of help. We learned of a man named Osama Bin Laden, of whom many of us had never heard, and of his plans - how he used our own willingness to welcome non-Americans against us.
The day after...our world had changed forever.
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