We all will forever remember 9-11 as a turning point in American history. For my family when we were assigned 9-11 as the date when my brother and I would be Bar Mitzvahed we didn't know what to feel. At first we joked about it. Because we are not active members in our temples community, we assumed that they gave us this date because it was a "reject" date. After about 3 weeks of family meetings and deciding what was the best course of action regarding our Bar Mitzvah date, we came to a conclusion. We were given this date because we had to continue on as normal. We couldn't change our date because we as a family, apart from having to coordinate a 200 people ceremony, we needed to do it on a day when the world was changed, and have a smiling face. This shows our strength as a family and as citizans of America, if we are all strong then we cant be divided.
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i really like how this entry completely relates to your life. What a weird position to be put in and i think you handled it perfectly. Your point that we need to return to normal really emphasizes patriotism if you will. The view of putting things back to normal was also shown in major sports that resumed play after a couple days. This showed that the American people as a whole can bounce back form anything.
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