Saturday, September 11, 2010

2001


Nine years ago, I was sitting in class being the mischievous little kid that I was in third grade. Of course I don't remember much about what happened, just that my teacher stopped everything and turned on the television so we could all watch the news. I don't think any of us knew what had happened. I asked my mom if the people from the buildings were flying and she told me that they were. I would have liked it better if she told me the truth. I remember in art class we drew stuff about that day, and I think I drew the towers on fire.. That was really inappropriate but I didn't know..
Sometime last year, I got really obsessed with 9/11 and started doing a bunch of research and stuff. I didn't understand then, but I understand now. So many lives were lost... and Today, people want to burn the Koran (Qur'an) as a "remembrance" of the victims. Americans were not the only victims. Now, all kinds of Islamic people are hated because of what has happened. Now there is no trust. Now everything is more hostile. People think it is difficult to trust people of another religion, as if that wasn't already a problem, it just got worse.
anyway...
Spare a thought for the ones who died on this day..
and if you could, check out this guys link, because I guess it kind of makes sense.
http://deathcab4booty.tumblr.com/post/1103440220/a-different-9-11

2 comments:

  1. Wow, this was a really good piece. I completely agree with the "Americans were not the only victims" line.

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