After WW1 and even WW2....you could go to the most remote areas of the world and literally find people who had NO clue about the WW's.
However, those WW's put America and the entire world onto her lap. Good and bad...America has effected almost every single area to some degree. So much so, that the world almost stopped spining on 09/11/2001. The greatest shock to man kind...literally.
Word spread so fast and even to the most remote areas. However, it also drew the lines dividing not only the nation but the world.
Those who enjoy American'esque dreams feared that maybe it is possible to lose it all if they bring down the nation. Those who are still fighting for the American'esque dream feared that the option was possibly off the table now.
Before long, it was clear that September 11 would alter the course of U.S. history. President George W. Bush announced that fighting terrorism and preventing future attacks would be his administration’s top priority. Governments around the world were told they must decide whether to stand with the United States in this antiterrorist effort or face U.S. wrath. Americans had to accustom themselves to new security measures that complicated their travel, work, and recreation. United States agencies rearranged their action agendas, and local governments scrambled to make preparations for new terrorist attacks, possibly involving biological, chemical, or even nuclear weapons.
However, the American'esque dream was highlighted after details of that day came to light thereafter...
“Let’s Roll”: Flight 93
The phrase “Let’s roll” would become a U.S. rallying cry in the subsequent war on terrorism.
It also became a theme for the world to continue to fight for freedoms no matter what.
A videotape discovered in Afghanistan in November 2001 provided insights into bin Laden’s thinking and evidence of his ties to the September 11 attacks. The videotape, apparently recorded earlier that month, documented a social conversation between bin Laden and a visiting Arab sheik...
Next to the name, Jesus no matter the nations religion...the know this name. Now they also knew the name...Bin Laden.
Americans also came to know the name: Mohammad...Allah.
Sure we saw videos of some celebrating but overseas, anti-American sentiment was blunted, at least for a while. For example, state-controlled media in Iran—which once denounced the United States as the “Great Satan”—carried sympathetic stories about the World Trade Center victims.
An enemy of any nation has never ever shown sympathetic natures after a suffering.
America's very own blessing could be seen in some eyes as a beatiful disaster in ways after finding out officials were especially alarmed that the September 11 terrorists had been able to live, work, and freely move in the United States without anyone realizing what their plans were. The debate continues to this very day and may possibly continue forever.
However, like Americans ask, "where were you when Kennedy was shot, MLK Jr., explosions of NASA's shuttles...etc.?: "Today the ENTIRE world asks...where where you this day?"
After the September 11 attacks, life in the United States slowly returned to normal. Much of the physical evidence of the attacks was removed. The section of the Pentagon destroyed by American Airlines Flight 77 was rebuilt, and the site of the World Trade Center towers was cleared of debris. An international design competition was held to decide how to rebuild the World Trade Center site. However, New York City, and the country in general, remained scarred by the September 11 attacks.
Fear and uncertainty were newly important characteristics of the U.S. way of life...
They fear that they could be like me, sitting here almost 8 years later...crying over the people we lost this day and what it did to me.
Written By: D'
