These two weeks we've
been watching the 9/11 documentary. It started out with two brothers who wanted to make a documentary about "a boy becoming a man". They choose a firefighter-rookie to film as he slowly turns into a firefighter and a man. Little did they know that they would end up filming probably the worst terror attack ever. The attack on the World Trade Center that killed more than 3000 people…
The thing about this attack is that until this particular day, the USA had always been a safe place to bee. The only time they had ever been attacked was duri
ng World War II when Pearl Harbor was attacke
d by the Japanese. At that time the Japanese people living in the USA were sent to camps be
cause the Americans didn't trust them - problem solved. But after September 11th the world changed. People changed. They were filled with hatred, and with good reason. The thing is whenever something bad happens; we usually want to blame someone. I guess it gives us a sort of relief to know that whatever happened happened for a reason. And no one can blame the people of New York,
the people of the USA and even the people of the entire world to wish for revenge…
What really caught my attention in the documentary was right before the first plane crashed into the tower. One of the film-makers; Gideon was randomly filming the couple of firemen who were working in New York city, when they suddenly heard an airplane. They looked up, because as one of the firefighters said "you never hear airplanes fly over New York City". They shake their heads like it was nothing, but suddenly they hear a crash and they realize that the airplane has crashed in the tower. The time was 08:45 am, and the plane hit the tower between level 93 and 99. Everyone knew that people were dead and injured. They also knew that the firefighters were going to have a huge job. What no one knew was that at 09:02 am, the south tower would also be hit, and you could see the fear in their eyes. After approximately 57 m
inutes the southern tower collapsed, quickly followed by the northern towers collapse. People were running for their lives.
People from all over the world were in the towers that now had collapsed so badly, the biggest piece that was found was a little piece of a phone. Actual organizations vanished. If you were sick that day, or for some reason couldn't make it to work, you suddenly had 200 funerals to go to… But what I want to discuss is how the world changed. Firstly, the president at the time George W. Bush innovated Afghanistan to fight against terrorism. A war that is still going on. Secondly, after 9/11, the security at airports are different. Nothing is allowed anymore. You can't even bring a bottle of water through security. If they have a single doubt, the security will question you, they will look through your stuff, they will deny you to fly. Anything to prevent the same thing to happen again. Thirdly, people have become more hostile to Muslims’. They are the enemy. In a way you can say that until this day, people were naive. They thought they had seen everything that could happen, but after 9/11 people were scared.
What's ironic is that early in the documentary, we hear about the two different kinds of rookies. The black cloud, and the white cloud. The black cloud is the rookie that comes, and suddenly there are many fires for him to go to. The white cloud, is the opposite. Whenever he's at work, there are no big fires. Tony, the rookie that we follow in the documentary wants to see his first huge fire, and one of the firefighters tell him to be careful what he wishes for. Then 9/11 happened.
If you ask anyone that was 7-8 years or older whether they remember where they were, what they were doing, what happened 9/11, they most lightly will say that they do. Personally, I remember my mother calling me, telling me to watch the news. It was live TV, and I came down to see the second plane crash, but at the time I wanted to play in my room, so I left. The next days at school, we talked about what had happened. We talked about how some people are just bad, and how others get brainwashed into doing bad things. But I think it's important to stay postive. Even though what happened was awfull, it's amazing how people cooporated the way they did to clean up the mess. It's a good thing that the security is now better, so that no one has to fear flying. But no matter what we say, do or think, 9/11 changed lives and the way people looked at the world. Like the firefighter said: "the new rookies will never know what it was like to work in New York City before 9/11"…
Here are my sources:
http://anettesylvia.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/8-ar-er-gatt/
http://www.vargas12.com/2010/09/11-september-2001-brutal-terror-live/
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