I choose this topic due to the fact that both of my parents were touched by the tragic experience of September 11.
I arrived to New York, as a child, an immigrant, and like millions of others before me my first strong impression of New York was the amazing sky line of Manhattan with the twin towers in the foreground. I visited the Twin Towers more than once, with my parents and my friends. I remember on one occasion, my friends and I were a block away from the World Trade Center complex, and I told them: "We can go there another day; it's not like its going anywhere". …