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American Social History Project

Life has changed in various ways since then. People feel unsafe to go to certain places and the United States has gotten stricter with a lot of things we do. Airports most of all had to step up security but I don’t blame them. They need to do what they need to do to keep all of us as safe as possible. Personally, my life didn’t change much from this tragedy. The only thing that affects me is the new laws that came about from it.

I asked my dad a series of questions about 9/11. On that horrifying morning, my dad was busy working at V&M Star. On their break, my dad was asleep when he was suddenly awakened by his friend beside him. The man said he had been watching television and came upon the tragedy happening in New York. They sat there staring at the TV, speechless. Of course, like every other American hearing about this, he was in complete shock. Fortunately, he did not know anyone who was in New York at the time nor did he know anyone else who knew someone there. Everyone in the area had the same reaction to this happening. No one could believe that this was actually happening and no one wanted to believe that it was true. My father thinks that the government had something to do with the attacks. If a plane would crash into the side of a large building, you think that it would tip over and cause even more destruction. Suspicion arose when the building started to collapse straight down as if each level of the building was being blown out. Hitting the top of a building would not cause the whole thing to crumble straight down like it did. He believes that bombs were placed on different floors of the building to have it collapse the way it did so that other buildings wouldn’t be affected too much by it. Along with many others who probably agree, my dad thought it was very unnecessary to film people actually jumping from the buildings to their deaths. No one needed to witness that happening to innocent people. Attacks like this are definitely going to happen again. With so many terrorists out there, everyone wants to take down America somehow. They will keep attacking and we will have to keep sending people out to war. That’s just how it’s always going to be. We could try to form better alliances with foreign countries to try and prevent this but there’s not too much we can do to stop it.