September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.
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Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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