“I will never look at a plane flying through the air without thinking that it looks like a bullet…”
~ Bonnie C. Kauder, Tampa
I lost many nights of sleep, and the second I found out that bin Laden died I cried my eyes out.”
~ Cristina Guarneri
“I am more patriotic…”
~ Marion Smith
“Ten years later, I find myself truly disappointed with many of my fellow Americans. They are going about their lives as though nothing ever happened.”
~Ruth Howard, Tampa
“Americans realized for just a brief moment in time that others do make a difference. It is unfortunate that we all simply forgot and went back to our own lives.”
~Rich Jahnke
“There is not a day that I don't think of what happened, I am still plagued by nightmares of that day and every time I hear a jet flying close by I jump. I look at people now getting on a subway or plane and avoid crowds of people.”
~ Tom Paradise
“I take nothing for granted anymore. I take the time to smell the roses and eat more dessert and do all of the things I want to do. I don’t put anything off anymore either.”
~ Dina DeMaria, Clearwater
“Made me enlist into the Marines in 2004 instead of going to college and playing football.”
~ Bobby Watkins
“I choose to fly far less frequently for both business and pleasure.”
~ Frank J. Currie, St Petersburg
“Every year I spend my wedding anniversary remembering the horrific events that took place on the day my husband and I were supposed to celebrate our first year together”
~ Kellie Harmon, Brandon
“Every time I have to recite the date of my birth for someone, I can see the look in their eyes. The worst is when someone notes how horrible it is to have been born on such a day.”
~ Elizabeth Hughes, Land O' Lakes
“The biggest affect on me was attending the funeral of a student, Jonathan Rossi, who had been killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq.”
~ Gaylee Mendenhall, Tampa
