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More recently, most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists. It is one of the ____ events in American history. Even the date—September 11, 2001—has ____ to most Americans.
This was a day will never forget. In May 2001, he ____ a job in the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, he arrived at his building at around 8:30 a.m. He was about to go up when he decided to get a coffee first. He went to his favorite coffee place even though it was two _____ east from his office. As he was waiting in line with other office _____, he heard a loud sound. Before he could join the other people outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit his office building. They stared in ___ at the black smoke rising above the burning building. He felt lucky to be alive.
Kate Smith will never forget the date, too. Now she still ____ working in her office near the two towers. “My friend Mike shouted ___ that a plane just hit the World Trade Center! I didn’t believe ____ at first. But then I looked out of the window and realized that it was ___. I was scared and I could hardly think clearly after that.”
September 11, 2001—the date alone means something to most people in the US.