September 11, 2001. Multiple attacks happened on American soil that deadly day.
According to History.com,
it was “a clear, sunny, late summer day—al Qaeda terrorists aboard
three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks
against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near
Washington, D.C., killing everyone on board the planes and nearly 3,000
people on the ground.
“A fourth plane crashed into a field near
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board, after passengers and
crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers.
It was
twenty-three years ago, and I still remember where I was when I heard
the news as if it was yesterday. I rushed to my TV in disbelief, and
felt numb...watching the unwatchable.
No matter how horrendous a foreign, domestic or natural disaster, Americans across the nation show up. 
We don’t wait to be asked. We knew instinctively that fellow Americans needed help. We knew what to do — and we did it.
Americans came from every State to support our fellow Americans.
It only took minutes, hours and days for the stream of people and resources to begin to pour into New York.
Americans cried together and prayed together that day on September 11, 2001 after one, then both, Twin Towers came down:
It took some time, but America healed and built a “Never Forget” remembrance.
”The
9/11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance, honoring the 2,977 people
killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade
Center site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, as
well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing on
February 26, 1993"--911 Memorial
Americans will never forget
September 11, 2001. It's like Memorial Day. Brutal. American Citizen
Deaths. Now, an American monument.
Yes, we honor those lost lives every year.
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n history, how many lives could have been saved from unimaginable pain and suffering, as well as death, if only those who could, would have acted sooner?