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2002-09-10

Just Another Day?



September eleventh two-thousand one, was just another day of school. Nothing more or less unusual than any other day of my life. But, by the end of the day it was all like a dream, more like a nightmare.
Never in all my life had I, and the rest of the U.S., ever imagined something like this could happen. I guess maybe, that's why we were such an easy target. We as a nation have been full of ourselves since we won our independence over 200 years ago. We all thought we were the invincible nation, which has a big force field around it. All this was running through my head all that day, and it still crosses my mind every now and then.
For several days after 9-11 all I wanted to do was kill Bin Laden. But then I came to my senses and realized more killing was not the answer. How about this, we stop all trade of any kind to Afganastan, no oil, nothing. Now that would stop him for a long time. Afganastan would slowly destroy themselves with there own terrorism.
Lastly, I thought a lot about the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. I thought about how I was proud to be American, because of those courageous Americans who took down the plane. They sacrificed themselves to save one of our biggest national symbols, the White House.
9-11-2001 has brought the people closer together not farther apart. We have beaten terrorism, and have prepared our nation for the worst.