9/11 Essay For English Class
So last week I wrote this amazing essay based of 9/11. Today in class my teacher told me I was a talented writer. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I'm good. Check it out....
It was a beautiful Tuesday morning. The sky was bluer than blue. People woke up, and went about their normal routine like any other day. Families said their goodbyes and left for work, expecting their day to be nothing other than a normal Tuesday. This day would never be the same for those whose loved ones were lost on 9/11.
The people responsible for the deaths of innocent American citizens had many complaints that most Americans were oblivious to. Some of their complaints had to do with the fact that they didn’t like America going to war with Iraq when Iraq invaded Kuwait. When America went into Iraq to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, Muslim extremists felt that American soldiers on Middle Eastern land was defiling their holy land. Al Qaeda, those responsible for that day, thought that we were taking away the wealth of the Middle East, their oil, away and not paying a fair price for it. Since the war the extremists had been doing small attacks on American sights, like the Embassy in Kenya and an American ship. The attacks on 9/11 were all an accumulation of those things and many others.
On 9/11 a group of fifteen to twenty angry Muslim men hijacked planes and did something that nobody thought would happen. They flew planes each filled with 10,000 gallons of jet fuel into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, killing themselves, everybody on the planes, and everybody in the buildings. Two planes were flown into the towers, one into the Pentagon, and a fourth plane landed in an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
As a child, I remember that day very vaguely. What I do remember is watching the events take place on the news playing on the television in the classroom at school. Children’s parents were picking them up from school and taking them home early. At that age, I couldn’t comprehend the loss of lives that occurred that day. Watching it on television felt like watching a movie. I didn’t realize that those were real people, real lives lost, it was reality not just some movie playing on the television.
Now after I watched the film in class I understand how serious that day really was. Hearing the mothers and fathers calling their loved ones to let them know how much they cared, how much they loved them, telling them how they were going to be fine, and saying their last and final goodbyes made me realize how tragic this day really was. I know comprehend how many children didn’t have their parents come home that night. Wives lost husbands, and husbands lost wives. That day was just very painful for the entire country.
I wonder if Al Qaeda feel like they acomplished something by attacking our country the way they did. Did taking all those innocent lives make their point or did it just make the world see them as monsters? I hope that those whose loved ones were lost have gotten past the worst part and have moved on with their lives. I hope that the country can rebuild itself and become stonger than ever before.