My September 11 story
I was home alone, and I sat on the floor and cried when I saw what was happening Tuesday morning. I instantly knew we were talking thousands of deaths. I'm having night terrors thinking about people trapped talking on cell phones, and I keep imagining what it must have been like for the people in the tower who looked death in the face in the form of a jet filled with people and lots of fuel. I know I'm not alone, we're all shaken to the very core of our being by this. Today I was shaken again, as I looked up from the parking lot of my doctor's office to see the armed guards patrolling the perimeter of the adjacent National Guard depot. Even the hospital wasn't allowing cars within 20 feet of it's perimeter, and had armed security at the door. I remembered having the same apprehensive feeling when I was in Jakarta, Indonesia months before the Slaughters of Timor. There were Policia everywhere, they expected terrorist attacks from forces opposing the government. I'm angry at them, these terrorists who have caused such harm- there can be no cause worth the taking of innocent lives. The terrorists have made their dying moment a martyrdom of their cause, I am sure. They flew jets into buildings, the death toll will likely be over f
We need to fear this, and we've proven we don't fear what we feel isn't real. Like war. Myself, I'm at the crux between people who are old enough to remember Vietnam and those to young to have felt that kind of loss in war. One of my earliest memories is of the Vietnam War's body counts being on the news each night. The number seemed like a game score to me- I knew that the side with the lower numbers would win, even if I couldn't fathom the war waging behind those numbers. ive thousand. The town I live in has 4800 people. They killed an entire town, to me. I've talked with many people in the last few days, around town, on the phone and by email. A lot of people are angry as well... justly so. I know people who have lost a friend and another who lost a relative (maybe). It seems so terrible, this horrendous "thing" they have done.
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FBI Maybe, RPGs Russian, World Power, , Timor Policia, War Millennium, National Guard, Vietnam War's, Bin Laden, President Bush, osama bin, bin laden, i'm angry, world power, i've heard, world terrorist, osama bin laden,
Approximate Word count = 1308
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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