"September 11: Bearing Witness to History" Stories Submitted Online

We have flown an American Flag at our home for as long as I can remember but we did put a flag on our cars after 9/11 and will continue to do so. Our feelings of pride in our flag have deepened.

Yes, I flew the flag and continue too! I was taught to respect this great symbol and what it represents. I want everyone to know where I am from and that I am proud of it!

Yes, my family hung a flag and now I look at the American flag and I'm proud to be American.

In Britain, we had a five miniute silence a week later as a tribute. the counrty stopped completley. I happened to be in town that day and was amayzed that not a single peice of traffic moved, no child cried, no birds chattered. I wore my American…

Yes. My feeling on the American Flag is now a feeling of reverence and remembrance for all those that have fought for freedom and independence from oppression.

I didn't fly an American flag after the events of September 11, but my family and I did hang up a poster of a flag on our family room window. I do have more feelings about the American flag since the terrorist attack. I feel that more Americans are…

Yes, we still have two small flags: one on our mailbox and the other in the front yard. They're faded but still fly proudly.

Im prond of the American flag more than I have ever been and I will always be.

i think the events have changed my life because they make me vaule my loved ones even more, and to become less trusting, and realize how fragile life is. Nobody I know was directly affected by the terroist attacks, so this has not changed my life…

Yes. My family and I participated in 2 candle light vigils that brought our small town together.

I was even featured on the front page of our local news tying patriotic balloons to my mailbox.

I've always been patriotic, although I did get a flag sticker for my car.

Being part of a family who is in the military, the American flag has always flown at our house. Occasionally, during football season, my dad will put up the UVA flag in support of the Hoos! Yet, putting up the flag at my house has never just been for…

I feel that the American Flag, has always had an importance in many lives. Well, for me it has. Standing there in the morning, before school starts, saying the pledge of allegiance. Many kids think that there is no point to the allegiance.. there is,…

I did fly my flag and lit candles for a couples of days, I always felt proud of my countrys flag and that day just made them stronger to protect it.

Yes and yes. The flag means more to me now than it ever did.

My family flew an American flag after September 11. Some of my family members had to go out and buy one and I remember them saying how hard it was to find one. All the stores were sold out. I appreciate the American flag more now. I never used to be…

I didn't own a flag until we moved out of Brooklyn. I bought one soon after we moved into our new house and put it on the front porch. Flags are ubiquitous in upstate New York, but it makes me feel part of my new community to fly it.

My family personally does not own a flagpole so we did not fly a flag. Although I am always in full support for all of those that do. I have grown up learning to hold great respect for the American flag. But since September 11th, I now have a…

Personally, I did not fly a flag. I've always gotten teary at the sound of the National Anthem, or "God Bless America", "America, the Beautiful", or any other patriotic song. I'm a very patriotic person. I lived overseas for a year, when I was 12,…

no I did not, however my feelings for the flag has changed...I now get a bit teary eye every time the National Athem is played...I am making sure that my son learns what our flag stands for and how to honor it.