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Today is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks & the 6th month anniversary of the 3/11 East Japan earthquake & tsunami - there's a lot of remembering going on in my head right now.
9/11 changed America in so many ways - both good & bad. I think there was a sense of security in our minds, like we were untouchable since we hadn't been attacked (especially on the mainland) in decades, & 9/11 showed us we were anything but. I was just starting my freshman year of high school. Almost every teacher in my classes had the TV turned on to watch the news. I remember my mom was clued to the TV for days after, trying to find out what had happened.
So many innocert people were killed on that day.
& on 3/11, even more innocent people were killed. As an American, 9/11 changed me, but as a person, 3/11 changed my life.
Even without looking back at pictures, I can remember everything clearly - grasping on to the doorframe so I wouldn't fall as the building shook, being held by one of the students as we escaped outside, & then those first few weeks not knowing if what would happen with the Fukushima power plant. I'd never been so scared.
Yasutomo found footage of where he had been when the earthquake struck when the tsunami had come. If hadn't taken the mountain road after the shaking instead of his usual route... I don't want to think about it.
People are still living in evacuation shelters.
I'm not the same person I was before the earthquake. The fear of not knowing if another big one will come keeps me on my toes - it's stressful, but I know I'm lucky. I was kept safe along with the people I know. I was able to have safe shelter as well as people around me. We had to work a bit for it, but we able to get water & food.
I feel like I could write a book with all my feelings from that day. I want to yell at people & tell them all the things I learned. Keep extra bottled water under your sink! Always have candles or a flashlight with extra batteries! If anything happens, immediately fill up your bathtub! I want people to learn from this.
I feel like the things I learned will stick with me for a long time.
9/11 changed America in so many ways - both good & bad. I think there was a sense of security in our minds, like we were untouchable since we hadn't been attacked (especially on the mainland) in decades, & 9/11 showed us we were anything but. I was just starting my freshman year of high school. Almost every teacher in my classes had the TV turned on to watch the news. I remember my mom was clued to the TV for days after, trying to find out what had happened.
So many innocert people were killed on that day.
& on 3/11, even more innocent people were killed. As an American, 9/11 changed me, but as a person, 3/11 changed my life.
Even without looking back at pictures, I can remember everything clearly - grasping on to the doorframe so I wouldn't fall as the building shook, being held by one of the students as we escaped outside, & then those first few weeks not knowing if what would happen with the Fukushima power plant. I'd never been so scared.
Yasutomo found footage of where he had been when the earthquake struck when the tsunami had come. If hadn't taken the mountain road after the shaking instead of his usual route... I don't want to think about it.
People are still living in evacuation shelters.
I'm not the same person I was before the earthquake. The fear of not knowing if another big one will come keeps me on my toes - it's stressful, but I know I'm lucky. I was kept safe along with the people I know. I was able to have safe shelter as well as people around me. We had to work a bit for it, but we able to get water & food.
I feel like I could write a book with all my feelings from that day. I want to yell at people & tell them all the things I learned. Keep extra bottled water under your sink! Always have candles or a flashlight with extra batteries! If anything happens, immediately fill up your bathtub! I want people to learn from this.
I feel like the things I learned will stick with me for a long time.