The article explains how other nations all over the world marked the anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. It starts off with a Filipino village lining up flowers in honor of the people killed. After it goes to a man in Madrid missing his daughter, who was in one of the towers. We then travel down to Australia where firefighters climbed eighty steps in honor of what the firefighters did on that day. It was emotion and heartbreaking. All over the world people reacted to 9/11 in their own unique ways. I found this article to be extremely important because I never realized how other nations felt about 9/11. I guess I figured that to people in Sweden, that 9/11 was just a day in history, and that it didn't really effect them. It reminds me of how I do not know much about what is going on in Russia or the Middle East, so I assume those places don't care about us. I am wrong though. Reading this article made me see through others eyes just how important and how much of a major world event 9/11 was. For my family and myself I know it was an emotional time and it still is, now I see that there are people in France who feel pain and sorrow too. One Parisan woman brought her daughter to a ceremony in France and told her how "We are all Americans." In a way this statement made me smile knowing that there were other people out there in villages and cities who care.
"What the World Saw"
Since this article was about 9/11 I started thinking that if in years and years from now (twenty or forty) will other nations still be respecting the day? Will people in the city or tri-state area still? When do we stop the ceremonies, after all this was the last year the bright lights to fill the gap in the Manhattan skyline went up.
Human Interest
Timeliness
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