Proud-Liberation of Paris, Post World Warll Germany, 1869 completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, completion of the Panama Canal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_canal
I realize that some terrible things were done in the name of these accomplishments, but you can’t take away the fact that they were enormous accomplishments and what event in history does not have its heroes and villains?
Scared-Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missile Crisis, September 11, 2001
I was in New York city that day and we were listening to the radio as the buildings collapsed. It still gives me shivers to think of it. For months my entire core sense of security was upended. I thought to myself, it will never be the same. I realized how lucky we have been to not be invaded after all these years.