Button - Via5
September 11, 2001
WTC NEWS & LINKS

OPINIONS
Home > stories & opinions

 The Day We Changed...
Posted by: BG from Pleasant Hill (Bay Area), California, USA
Thursday November 01, 2001 @ 09:41 PST

...as americans, and as human beings. i came downstairs tuesday as i would any other day and sunk into the couch to enjoy my mere 30 minutes before going off to waste-away the day in school. i flipped on the tv to ktvu- one of the local news channels out of oakland- just to see what was going on in the world. i really wish i haden't. the tv went immediatly to light brown dust. honestly the first thing that i thought of was footage of a suicide bomb in israel, i don't know why. within seconds the news anchor says something to the effect of, "ok, the south tower of the world trade center has callapsed."

i froze. (i'm going to do my best to write how i felt.) i'm fifteen and thus i had never experienced anything like this before. "oh my god," followed by, "holy s***!" my heart must have stopped for a second or two. my body was cold. i lost my appetite for breakfast pretty fast. i coulden't believe what i was seeing, and it took me about a month to finally accept it.

i went to school that morning, still not comprehending what had happened. as the day progressed i got a pretty good idea of what had taken place, and what was taking place in ny and dc. i felt horrible the rest of the day, and week. i've never felt so absolutely horrible.

i tried hard to find things i could do in the days following the catastrophe. being the broke teen with no job as i am, i only managed a $40 donation to the united way. somehow i felt a bit better though. this event really changed me as well. i never thought much of patriotism, and always took for granted that i live in the us, but that has all drained from me and left raw patriotism and american pride. we have such a fantastic country here. no where else has a modern democracy flurished for so long. and better than that, the united states of america has shone time and time again that it can only grow stronger, and we have.

the united states is the definition of strength, diversity, and equality, and even brainwashed, ignorent, bin laden loving terrorists can see that. because after all, they wouldn't have done this if we weren't the way we are.

i didn't shed a tear over the towers or the pentagon, and i felt a little guilty for it. but what did get tears in my eyes was the incredable support from other countries around the world. hearing the "star spangled banner" ring out over london is something i will never forget. and seeing pictures from around the world of american flags raised in so many countries restores my faith in humanity, for the most part. god, buddha, allah bless every person on earth who has felt as horrible about this event as we, because we effected are all humans.

i think we all need to remember that. we're all humans for god's sake, with exception of the savages who commited these acts, may they burn in hell for all eternity. but back to the point, it doesn't matter if your american, european, asian, arabic, or anything else. we're all humans. someday we'll all understand. i think we also need to understand that these terrorists are not being true to islam, and are not representatives of islam. they have perverted the islam faith into something far different. they are exactly like murderers who claim god makes them kill people, or that they're on a holy mission. do we beleive that crap whan it's an american extremist perverting christianity? no. then why beleive it when it's a islamic extremist perverting islam? it's all the same- bull****.

thank you for reading all this, i'm finding this is a great way to vent some of this stuff. i want to let everyone effected by this catastrophe know that there is a guy out in california who gives his support to everyone. if you have any questions or anything else, feel free to email me with anything you might have to say.

god bless us all and god bless america.
 


© Copyright 1999 | 2016 via5
E-MAIL info@via5.com