Eight years ago people in the United States were attacked on their own soil by terrorists. Three-thousand and seventeen people died from the suicide attacks, while more than six-thousand people were injured. As the world watched the planes collide and the towers fall they had to have felt the threat to freedom and safety in the United States. A terrorist group had gone into America, our country and killed thousands of people. Whether Republican or Democrat, black or white, and everything in between on September 11, 2001 we were all Americans. People put division behind them and mourned over those Americans lost at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Today, more than ever in this country, we need that same feeling of unity in a time were freedom is being infringed upon in a more subtle way.
6 comments:
Exactly right. It's really a shame we don't remember 9/11 as a day when our nation was attacked by a vile enemy. Too many people want to imagine any other possible scenario. It's a double tragedy that it's been politicized to the point that future generations may not get the real story. I looked on a book ordering site today and there were as many books of theories about why the attack was engineered by George Bush, or was our fault, or even that some American right wing extremists did it as there were books reporting facts about it.
I watched the memorial last night. I was in school when all of this was going on, and I had a student who laughed when we talked about it, so I just had a regular day.
What a terrorable day. What a great response from the American people.
What a scary and horrible scene that picture shows.
I still remember where I was when the attack happened. It was a very sad day. The store I was working in closed early in the day, we did not have a single customer, everyone was at home watching the news of the attack on television. I will never forget the feeling I had that day.
I was melancholy on Friday, remembering 9/11 of eight years ago and the life changing effect it had on many thousands of people who lost their lives, of course, or loved ones, or friends. It also has greatly affected the sense of security of millions of individuals in this nation.
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