9/11

When you read this article it really hits you hard. The biggest thing that is talked about if the fact that there are to sides. One is the people who are connected to the event by losing family or people that they knew and the other are the people like me that feel horrible about the event but have moved on because we have no connections to this event. Its not that i don't care about the people that died in the twin towers its just that i can only relate to it by videos and the spoken stories about it. On the day of the attack i was sitting at my elementary school. I can barely remember anything from that day. I don't even think i knew what was going on. This is because i had no connection to it. I can say that i have never known anyone who has died in an event like this until a week ago when Lance cpl. Ross Carver died in Afghanistan. I knew him through ROTC. Even though he was not in high school when i was he would come through and used to help us at some of our parades and drill meets. Now i know what it feels like to lose that neighbor or to lose that friend in 9/11. I saw somewhere that Katrina had about the same number of casualties that 9/11 did and they asked why didn't Katrina get a day for itself if it killed so many. The reason for this is because unlike Katrina we were attacked. This event was the last straw for us and it put the war into motion. This is just like world war 2. i bet anything that on December 7th, 1950 people that had lost loved ones in Pearl Harbor were still grieving over them and the people that didn't lose anyone in the event felt horrible when it was mentioned. In a documentary ive seen, a world war 2 veteran said that "it wasn't like world war1, we were attacked" and this is why this event is so much more memorable than Katrina or any others.