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What are your personal memories of September 11th?

I feel for the people that have lost their lives in the terror attack, and also for those living that were personally affected by it because they had lost loved ones on the day. The memory I have most distinctly about the day was getting a phone call from my neighbour across the hall (I was still living on campus in Newcastle at the time) late in the evening (AEST) to tell me to turn the telly on because 'World War III is just about to start'. And then from that moment till a couple of hours later, I was glued to the screen as the footages of the planes hitting the WTC, and the towers subsequently collapsing kept on repeating no matter which channel I turned to. I never felt a need for my family to be safe more than that day, even though they were in Singapore, and not in America.

I'm thankful that my loved ones and I have not had to go through these attacks, but I also wonder why people can't just get along. Simplistic and rather naive, I suppose, but wouldn't that be ideal.