Significant Moment January 18, 2008

If I could choose one event in my life that had a remarkable impact on me, it would be 9/11/2001. This event made such a lasting and permanent impression on me because it changed my life in a way that made me reconsider everything I had previously thought to be true. An example of this was the new found vulnerability of the United States and that my family was not invincible. That day, my cousin came out with 3rd degree burns from the fire in the world trade center and is only alive because of the kindness of a stranger that carried her down 20 flights of stairs after she was wounded. Also, my mother would have been walking through that building at that time if the bus she was on during her normal commute had not broken down that particular day. This event made me think of how timing was so important and that nothing is ever what it seems and how much we take for granted in this country (such as our safety and the benevolence of other people). The day the twin towers were brought down was the day that everything changed.
-Holly Taubman