September 11th.

i was like 7 when 9/11 happened.
my dad was in Washington DC that day, he works for the goverment and he's gone alot. i walked in my moms room to tell her i was up and saw her stare in horror at the tv, it was only in New York at the moment that a plane had flown into, but seeing my moms horrified face i got the idea right there something big was happening. i kept asking her what was going on, finally she said, "some bad people are tring to ruin our country." i couldn't quite get it all but i knew it was really bad i sat there and watched the news report on her bed till it was time to go to school. i was going to a private school, they never mentioned it happening, and a day later it was agianst the rules to talk about it. my dad was going to the pentagon later that day, and the office he was supose to be in got a direct hit. instead he was down the street in some other building watching it all. we weren't able to get a hold of him till 3 days later. but till then my mom was a wreck.
i don't know if the goverment really could've totally stopped it from happening. but as long as this country is free, other countrys will always be trying to take that away/ruin us. they think we have it so easy, and we do considering other countrys. so in away for them it's like a way to avenge their pain i guess

CemeteryDrive123:

i just think thar although it was an horrible thing i dont think that the goverment should have used it as an excuse to start a war in iraq...and i also think its disgusting of them to start it on septemeber 11
and yes they say it had nothing to do with the terrioists attack but...

Last time I checked it was Weapons of Mass Destructions that the government used as their excuse to invade Iraq, not 9-11
That was Afghanistan.

I was in New York a month ago and I remember getting on the subway and I was heading to the World Trade Center station. I remember stepping out of the turnstiles and just everything being eerily quiet and the first thing you see is this gate with mesh over it and some people tore holes into the mesh and I peeked through and all you could see broken pieces of cement and chunks of metal and construction crews. Even thought 9-11 happened 6 years ago, you could still get this feeling of chaos.
I walked along the sidewalk and kept looking over at the mess below and then I see this guy who was a police officer and was there on 9-11. He had his SUV parked along ground zero with an American flag on the side of his vehicle and he's giving this huge lecture on what happened and he shows photos of the towers getting hit and then collapsing.
Near the end, he brings out this photo album and he shows these horrible photos of body parts strewn on the ground and some bodies layed out on the cement right where we were standing. Everyone was horrified and then the guy brings out a photo of a womans hand on the ground and shows a little boy and hes visibly scared and I didn't think it was fair he did that to a small child. But whatever. I guess he was trying to prove a point.

Though I was not there and I was young when it happened, I still feel really strongly for everyone affected by what happened that day.

At the time I didn't really know what had happened. My mum picked me up from school and said to me "Simon there has been a big explosian" or something like that and the news was on alot.
It was only a few months later that I realised that it was a terroist attack and thats when I knew what terroism was.
It's kind of scary because this whole world all the major cities in the world are like a ticking time bomb and it could happen again and worse.
But at the same time 9/11 is to (dare I say) thank for My Chemical Romance with out it Gerard could still be working in an office in New York or worse by now he might have killed him self.

I'm sure to be shouted down for this, but...

I believe that in a lot of ways it was the fault of the US Government. If they hadn't interfered in Middle Eastern affairs, would Osama bin Laden have had any urge to blow up the Towers? People don't just wake up one day and say, "I'm going to commit a terrorist act".

I lost my uncle in the disaster, so it is also close to home. (He was on the plane that hit the Pentagon).

But seriously, to stop another 9/11, rather than trying to take down the enemies, the USA needs to do some soul searching about it's role in the world.

i totally agree with shadow
my dad was on a plane at the time so when i heared it on the news i was pretty terrified.

Do you think America is responsible in some way (like Maggie Gyllenhaal said)?
--Well, no. I don't think that at all. It's been said a few times here, and I agree. It was the terrorists attack. It was an attack of war, and we did nothing to provoke it. They attacked inncoent citizens. America is the epitome of a strong, safe country. That's why they did this. That's why they attacked us. I personally want to rip them limb from limb.
But that's just me.


Was it our President's fault?
--No. Bush may not be the best president, and I do not like his decisions BUT he did not ask for this. As far as I know, the only way this was his fault is if he stood there and said, "Hey guys! Over here!"

What can be done to prevent this from happening again?
--I hate the war. I really do, but it proves that America isn't going to lay down and let people attack them. It needs to happen, even though I hate it.

take a bow.:

i believe it was the US government, because apparently we knew about the attack days before.
where was the US military as well? apparently they weren't around at the time of the attack.
and wasn't bush in texas on one of his ranchs or reading to a grammar school kids?
the whole thing behind 9/11, we will never know. but even at the time it happened (i was 11), i damn well understood what was going on. and now that i am older... i do not believe it ust to be a terrorist attack, i believe it to be something constructed by the US government.

How are we going to stop it? We had days, and the government gets threats ALL the time, there is NO way they could've known. Maybe there is more that they could've done, but it's not like they just sat there.
And what, pray tell, was the military supposed to do? Fighter jets were up there escorting passenger planes to landing, making sure it wasn't more terrorist. What were they supposed to do? Hmm? I don't see it. It's an army, to gather troops takes time. It's not a simple phone call. We didn't have the TIME.

Honey, I never claimed that you couldn' t have your opinion. I was merely discussing it. This is the Discussion Board. I was giving my opinion. I'm sorry for the offense.

i think that the US provoked (in some way) the terrorist to blow up the buildings...

if bush didn't interfere with Iraq's business then, they would not be annoyed and they would not blow up new york...

and if the US already received the threats from the terrorists, they would've taken it very seriously and secured the US especially the possible places for a terrorist attack...

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^^exactly.
No country was behind the attacks on America. It was a bunch of crazy Islamic extremists.
And the US government already admits that they got wind of a possible terrorist attack. And there is no way of securing a city like NYC. It's HUGE and there are a gabillion ways in.
I didn't read the 9/11 report, this is all from watching the news, but I don't think they knew where the attack was going to be.

MCR AND COFFEE:

i think the 9/11 attacks are one of the most influencial events in history. I'm not American, but I am really affected about history.
About what we can do about it, i think there is only one way. We can't predict the future but we can ready ourselves before it happens again.

Hopefully.