Other than the worry and depression that most Americans dealt with, I had to fly to Los Angeles about a week later. Airlines and airports were just starting to open up again. Everyone was really worried and tense.

It has affected the whole world, I have a daughter and a son who have served and will serve again in Iraq and Afghanistan, 9/11 was the beginning of our involvement in these conflicts. The good people of the world are always waiting for the next terrorist attack. We live in hope that the terrorists and their ilk will be wiped off the face of the earth and then at least although a terrible tragedy 9/11 was not in vain.p.s. I noticed somebody gave you a negative for no reason, so I have given you my + 3 best I could do.

This is what I saw... I am personally affected... the end.

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im canadian. it didnt affect me like it did you guys but it was still pretty shocking. everyone here freaked, and they closed the cn tower. at school we just talked about it in class the rest of the daY.i was scared there would be a war. and there is.

It didnt affect me... But i do live on the other side of the world

I dont live in the USA, but i was personally affected because i lost a friend who had moved out there and was caught up in the blast, i remember that day so clearly, i was working as a waitress in this place called the Ashvale restaurant, and it was all over the radio, i didnt find out for nearly 3 weeks that he had been killed, but i guess thats no where near what you all had to deal with living there

Well my brother is in Iraq now...and probably the gas prices...

Other than the horror of seeing the attack on TV, and the sickening feeling I get whenever I think of it, the only personal effect has been that a lot of my belongings were unnecessarily confiscated at the airport (knitting needles, folding scissors, a two inch pocket knife).

Since 911.....I need 3 poofs Of ID when I am getting even the simplest thing done I am forever proving I am a citizen of the United States and I have lived here all my life,I also cannot greet or give a kiss to love ones as they come in on a plane, treated like a criminal when I get onto a plane,yes it has effected me I have never committed a crime in my life but I am grilled as if I have never even lived here. Great Question!!

It made me realize that the US is not impervious to devious attacks that could literally happen at any moment. It was quite a sobering moment for the entire world. It made the world less safe of a place to live in.

It was in my backyard. I live in NYC, have all my life. I remember when I was a kid staring up at the towers in amazement and wonder about how anything can be so tall or beautiful. We would go to the top of the Towers and look over Manhattan and be on top of the world. I loved the Towers when I was a kid. Then on Sept. 8, 2001 we went in and on them again. We went with my cousins, it was their first time. They left either that day or the next day. Three days later, September 11, 2001 came. I went from seeing the towers in amazement and wonder to terror and grief. It was the saddest moment of my life. There was a thick smoke that I could see from my house in Queens. So many people died, it's just so sad. I tear up every time I think about it. Now I think about how many things could have gone wrong to lead up to our going onto the Towers on 9/11. I'm lucky just to have not gone on that day, I'm lucky to still be alive. My Aunt's brother, Angel, was working in the Towers on 9/11. He worked in the Tower that was hit second, the South Tower. He was about on the range of floors where the plane hit. When he heard the news of the North Tower, he ran down the stairs as fast as he could, despite his management's telling him to stay in the building and everything would be alright. He told us later that my the time he reached the last flight of stairs, the steps already felt like jello. He's lucky to be alive too, even more so than me. My dad also stopped working in the Towers before 9/11. So many things went right for me, but for many people, nothing went right. It's just so incredibly sad, words can't describe it.

It cost me about $35 since I bought the flag to put on my deck and a bumper sticker.

It hasn't.

When it happened, I was in high school. The high school i was in was mostly white, and I was olive complected a lot of people made fun of me and called me a terrorist and harassed me about it. It made my high school years pretty tough, even one of my teachers told me to take my "turban" off when i had a sweat shirt on my head as a joke.

I can't think of one thing that has been affected by it in my life.

I think the way it affected most Americans -- terrorized -- that's exactly what the perpetrators wanted.

Many different ways. I knew a guy who worked in the South tower. He didn't make it out. But 9/11 was used by the Republicans as a way of getting their Patriot Act rammed through Congress and into law. Thus eventually, the F.B.I. used such as an excuse to harass me for not worshipping Bu$h.

because morons keep thinking it's september the 11th , it the 9 th of november