AM LIT: September 11 changed many aspects of American life, even though your generation was born afterward. Think about a major event that has happened during your own lifetime, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or another event that affected your community or the country. How do you think your experience with that event helps you understand what it might have been like for Americans to experience the uncertainty and change following 9/11? Explain the connection.

Well throughout my whole life I don’t think there hasn’t been another more impactful event than Covid-19. I remember that when it started everyone thought it was just another variant of the flu until people started to die by the hundreds. It was then when the whole country entered into a national lockdown. This relates to 9/11 in the way that everyone was afraid and scared of what was going to happen. 9/11 made people go out and fight for their country after that attack, many join the army and other branches. Covid-19 made people stay home and avoid an invisible enemy.

Reflection: This two events didn’t just impacted the country, it shake the whole world and caused panic everywhere.

Summary: Events like this ones are the ones that not even time can erase. They are like Chernobyl, World War I and II, or the Black Death.

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