In class we watched 9/11 a documentary about the Fire fighters who were the first responders at the World Trade Center tower 1. It showed the pure confusion and fear everyone had. No one understood what was going on. A plane flew into a building?! Most of the people had a look of terror on their faces and many were crying. How could this happen in America?! The thing that had the biggest impact on me from watching the movie was the thud of the bodies that dropped from the building. Knowing that people had a choice to jump and they picked it over staying in the building was just heart wrenching.
I read the article The Real Meaning of 9/11. The paragraph that stood out to me was,
"Imagine, for a moment, you are Marwan al-Shehhi, the lead hijacker of Flight 175. You see Christine Hanson among the passengers on the plane you had just hijacked -- a two-year-old child, seated on her father's lap -- and you fly the plane carrying this child into the South Tower of the World Trade Center anyway. Peter Hanson, Christine's father, was on the telephone with his own father, Lee, as the plane approached lower Manhattan. "I think they're going to try to crash this plane into a building," Peter told his father. "Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it will be quick." Then, Peter said, "Oh, my God," and Lee Hanson watched on television as the plane flew into the tower."
In my mind I just didn't want to believe that people could be that evil, but knowing what I know about the Holocaust, I know that people can be evil. These people didn't take into account that there were people in the buildings or on the plane, all they thought about was pleasing their God. Tell me what kind of a God thinks killing other people is a good thing? If that's God than I don't want to believe in him, I can't believe in him.
I read the article The Real Meaning of 9/11. The paragraph that stood out to me was,
"Imagine, for a moment, you are Marwan al-Shehhi, the lead hijacker of Flight 175. You see Christine Hanson among the passengers on the plane you had just hijacked -- a two-year-old child, seated on her father's lap -- and you fly the plane carrying this child into the South Tower of the World Trade Center anyway. Peter Hanson, Christine's father, was on the telephone with his own father, Lee, as the plane approached lower Manhattan. "I think they're going to try to crash this plane into a building," Peter told his father. "Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it will be quick." Then, Peter said, "Oh, my God," and Lee Hanson watched on television as the plane flew into the tower."
In my mind I just didn't want to believe that people could be that evil, but knowing what I know about the Holocaust, I know that people can be evil. These people didn't take into account that there were people in the buildings or on the plane, all they thought about was pleasing their God. Tell me what kind of a God thinks killing other people is a good thing? If that's God than I don't want to believe in him, I can't believe in him.
9/11 to me is a sad moment in history. All of those people had families and lives a head of them. None of them thought that they would die. One story I heard was about a women who went to the World Trade for one day for a business meeting. She was killed as the tower collapsed. If she hadn't gone to the meeting she would be alive today. I remember on 9/11 getting ready for school. My neighbor called and I remember watching one of the towers get hit. My dad wasn't home because he was on a business meeting in South Carolina. My mom was scared and I didn't fully understand what was happening. All I understood was that bad people attacked our country because they hated America. I didn't understand why anyone could hate America, because I thought we were the best and strongest country in the world. Watching the towers today on the History Channel, I see that even the strongest countries can crumble. We didn't. 9/11 stalled us, but made us stronger. We had patriotism and we stood together. Everyone helped each other and we became a family nation. Every one cared for every one after the attacks. Our flag stood for the freedom of our country, no amount of bad people could take our freedom away from us.
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