The day the towers were hit as well as the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania I was, like most kids, in school. I had made it through home room and had moved on to my first class of the day which was English. Although i dont really remember the teachers name I can remember his face and I also remember that he was a pretty down to earth guy. With about 15-20 minutes left in the class another teacher came to the door and pulled him outside. I thought this to be a little bit strange but allowed my mind to dismiss any thoughts of it. When returned his normal cheery self had a blank look on his face. He told us that something terrible had happened and that he was not supposed to allow us to see the news on the tv but he decided that we had a right to know what was going on. When the tc came on the first image was the first tower with smoke billowing out of it. Immediately I was confused by what was going on. Initially people thought that it was an accident and were trying to fill in the blanks of information that were layed out by the pictures we were all viewing. Then the second plane hit... With each class came more and more news about what was going on. Information about the towers falling, the pentagon, and the foiled attempt that crashed in pennsylvania. For most of the day we were not allowed to watch the tv because they thought it would upset us too much. But the damage had been done. Kids were crying and calling their parents to find out if they were alright and for the day the halls of the school were complete pandimonium.
My initial feelings were anger. Why would someone want to do this to us? What did we do to deserve this? And would there be anything else? These questions were not so easily answered because of the biased opinions of the majority of the population of America. Most were thinking we should bomb their whole country with no second thoughts whatsoever. To be honest I was among those people at first. That is until I began to hear the real story that the media and the united states government wasnt telling us. The real history behind the whole circumstance and my point of view changed from why us to how could we have prevented this. No offense but people dont just go out and bomb people and slam planes into buildings for the hell of it. There has to be some sort of motivation towards this circumstance. And there was, and that answer was that in a sense we are the object of our own demise. We drove a country to hate us so tremendously that they would attack us like that. When you think about it 9/11 is not that bad comparing what the United States has done to some other countries. Do I think what happened on 9/11 was right? no but I do feel that we brought it on ourselves
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