![]() ![]() ![]() But when our own planes took down our own people on our own land, we felt the need to be overtly patriotic almost to the point of puking.īut I, a seven-year-old girl, joined in with it. It was pretty bland - white walls, beige carpet, fit for any style or decor.īut after that attack, the US went into patriotic overload: the past few decades had been spent with the Greatest Generation in the very back of our minds, instead we were concerned and obsessed with all but anti-patriotism, everything the government did was wrong in the eyes of the baby boomers, the hippies, the feminists and the political activists. At the time, we lived in a suburb of Austin, TX, in a three-bedroom apartment. I had just started second grade less than a month before, and turned seven years old exactly a month and a day before. We were watching on my mom's little bedroom television, terrified and horrified, as the second plane hit the second tower. Of course, my mother turned on the news to see the worst attack ever to happen on US soil. To turn on the news, and that he was coming home from the shop as soon as he could. He told my mother, brother and I to hunker down in the apartment - that we were under attack. I had stayed home from school for a day with my mom when my step-dad called that morning. After watching the last episode of the miniseries, America: The Story of Us, I feel more patriotic than I have in ages.
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