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2002-09-11

Like the majority of america, i watched the devastation on CNN at school until the media started doing it's job and showing the most grotesque scenes of people jumping out of the twin towers and such. It sickens me that ratings are still an issue in a time like that.

September 11 hasn't changed my life drastically. I think I live too far from ground zero in Arizona to really grasp the concept of the twin towers being absent in the Manhattan skyline and the real effects it has. But in the long run, this whole thing sickness me. No matter what we say, the U.S. brought this upon itself. I'm not condoning the attacks in anyway, 9/11 was a horrible act and should never be condoned or rationalized, but the fact is, the U.S. isn't the great shining beacon of freedom and democracy everyone in the U.S. is lead to believe. I read somewhere that 15% of the population has passports. 15%. That means 85% of Americans have never been outside of the U.S. before. They are ignorant to the situation outside of this country with the exception of what they see on T.V.(media, what a joke). Americans don't realize this kind of thing happens all the time in countries everywhere but here. I forget who it was that said this but he was a british politician that said "American hides between their 2 oceans." What he said was very true. American is very isolated from the rest of the world. American is nothing like Europe with many countries sharing boarders with each other. This is why American are so ignorant. They are ignorant the fact that America is just too nosy into other peoples problems and that is the reason why people outside of this country are so anti-american. But instead of doing a head on aproach like vietnam, they do sneaky little things like giving weapons to Iran to fight Iraq and Iraq to fight Iran. WE gave weapons to Osama to fight Russian in a revolution, and when we asked for them back, he said no. Whoever is reading this, 10, 100, even 1000 years from now, just remember, America isn't the good, riteous country people said it was. This country might have the best form of government, but that doesn't mean it is always right in it's causes.

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I did fly a flag. I think this whole issue about the flag and it's meaning, the questioning of the pledge of allegiance, it's all just nonsense. Questioning if we should say a pledge in the begining of school because it has one line that refers to "God" is ludicrious. Do kids, the people that are actually saying this, care?