What is an “American Identity”? Some say it’s how we react to the world around us, but what has changed since maybe fifty years ago? How do people act now compared to how we may have before, and how have we most significantly changed? Most of the recent tragedies that have occurred, many young people, or the new generation of our country, were yet too young to have experienced them. Yes, we have read about it in our textbooks, and it may have been only a few years ago, but we but we were too young to have personally experienced the great terror that struck our country and brought us closer together with one another. We come together when a big tragedy hits our country, and that 's what makes us who we are. War, bombs, shootings, plane crashes,