9/11 is an important date to me due to the fact that it caused many Americans to view every and all Islamic person in a horrible light. If I were to go up to a few of my own family members and ask what they think of Muslim people their response would be along the lines of, “They’re all terrorists and awful people.” As a Muslim myself it makes me a little afraid to speak about my own religion to adults. A few of my own friends lost family members due to the wars that were caused by the emotions that 9/11 erupted in Americans as a whole.

9/11 is still important to me still because my uncle went and joined the Marines right after seeing it on TV and my dad is a pilot.

Not only did it affect my close family, but it hurt the way Americans see Muslim people. It started a war in the Middle East, and gave America a reason to be there, which led to the separation of families and thousands of deaths to everyday people.

On Sept. 11, our country went into complete shock. This is important to me because it was an emotional event for my parents. They were in Philadelphia and they weren’t sure what was going happen next. No one did.

I may not have been alive when it happened but ever since I could remember, it was a heavy topic. It was talked about in my history classes since the fifth grade. So I started to care about it, I wanted to learn more about it, because it was an important time in American history.

This is an event we continue to remember each year because it has significance. We honor all military, firemen, police and anyone else who lost their lives on this horrible day.

Nobody in New York woke up knowing that such a tragic event would take place that morning. 9/11 is an important date in American history because it spreads awareness about the seriousness of terroristic attacks.

Thousands of New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New Jersey citizens who all worked in the city were unfortunately met with a traumatizing, death-inducing event that people today still are talking and thinking about.

People who were alive during 9/11 often share their stories about what they may have been doing that day in detail. Since 9/11 the U.S. government has increased airport security and border control drastically with the goal to ensure such an event would not take place again. In the time since, no further attacks have taken place.

My dad is now a retired Marine, and I’ve grown up taught about 9/11 about how terrible it was. It both hit me in a fear level of that happening again, the same way I imagine it did anyone else, and it also hit me on an empathetic level on how my parents, especially my father must have felt having seen it happen. 

I know I definitely still care about Sept. 11. I don’t think it will ever become something no one cares about.

While we may not have been born to experience this traumatic event, our parents and grandparents remember that day like it was yesterday. Their stories will never be forgotten, especially the ones with the most personal backstories. While the imprint of the day will gradually fade in our memories, it will never be fully gone.

Sept. 11, 2001 is a date that I feel strongly about.

I don’t feel strongly about it because I remember the event itself, but I feel strongly about the impact that it has caused. The shockwave that is still quietly hitting us decades later. On this date, videos begin to resurface. Memories resurface, and even though they aren’t our memories, they’re the memories of our loved ones. 

My dad is a Muslim Turk who was in America on Sept. 11. While I was not alive during the event, I can see the social and mental effects 9/11 still has on Middle Easterners all across the world.

On Sept. 11, 2001 Americans lives changed forever. One of the most tragic days in American history, even though I wasn’t there my mom told me about what happened. She told me that one of her closest friends had passed and told me how she remembered seeing the smoke in the air and how my brother was locked in his school. She told me about how worried she was that the country wouldn’t be able to bounce back from this.

I appreciate how President George Bush handled the situation and how he was with a class of kids and showed no emotion but stayed calm and exited the room.

Sept. 11, 2001. I may not have been alive, but that date is practically burned into my brain.

One of the biggest reasons this day is so important to me is because even though it is in the past, it has changed thousands of peoples lives forever. Not just Americans. I am a big believer that everybody has a purpose and will fulfill it, but because this event happened, stereotypes are more prominent than ever. Muslims are now viewed as hateful, arrogant and violent people. Our security throughout the U.S., especially the border rules, have been raised since that day.

Not only has it affected others, but I genuinely live in fear daily that something terrible may happen. Some people fear that things might happen without previous evidence that it has happened before. This is only all the more real because it did happen, and it still matters.