Everyone that knew Alfred F. Jones knew him to be loud, reckless, foolish, and a variety of other things. He loved hamburgers, his bomber jacket, and playing the hero. He was known for showing up late to meetings, sometimes in scruffy attire and always proclaiming that the hero had arrived. He liked proposing ridiculous ideas about stopping global warming and often started rambling about aliens. One could definitely say that he was a spontaneous person, when being nice. So no one expected the manner of his arrival one particular September morning.
The door to the meeting room was pushed open five minutes before the meeting was to start, and several of the nations looked up to see who had arrived. When England saw who it was, he immediately stopped arguing with France, who turned to see who had drawn his attention. The two nations' sudden silence drew the attention of all the other nations in the room, and soon everyone was staring at the man in the doorway.
America stood there, wearing a clean dark blue suit and a red-and-white tie. He held a briefcase in his hand, and there was no sign of any fast food on his person. His hair was combed neatly to the sides, his black shoes were polished, and his glasses sat squarely on his face. But perhaps the most noticeable thing about him was that he wasn't smiling. He wasn't exactly frowning, and he wasn't angry, but he wasn't smiling either. In the quiet following his entrance, he calmly made his way to his seat and settled himself in the chair. Canada slipped through the doors in his brother's wake, nearly unnoticed as the world stared at America. Canada sat in his own chair next to France, and the older man turned to him.
"Mathieu? What is wrong with Amerique?" he asked. Canada blinked.
"Don't you remember?"
"Remember what, cher?"
"Today is September 11, the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia. America's people always remember this day.
"I believe they call it 9/11."
A/N: I felt like doing something for it, even though I got it up later than I intended. I know it's short, but I didn't really have much to work with. I'll be doing more for other countries, so if you want a specific date to be done just ask. :)