American.

9-11-01.
4th grade.
Seeing my dad walk in the door when he should be at work.
Watching him tell my mom to turn on the TV.
Planes crashing into buildings.
Mom bursting into tears.
Dad drives me to school.
I walk in and see the adults crying.
And that day in school, nothing was done.
We sat in the quad all day, wondering what was going on.

Ten years later,
I know.
I understand.
What happened to the United States was horrible.
A tragedy.
But.
As a nation,
We went from being at the lowest of lows,
To the highest of highs.
The amount of patriotism after 9-11 increased drastically.
We've come together as a nation.
I know we still have flaws.
But we've overcome one of the greatest tragedies ever to happen to our country.
And more than ever, I'm proud to be an American.
..chelle..