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2002-05-28

Different people have different perspectives about almost everything. Perspectives play a big role in history; it can determine whether or not wars occur, deaths, technological advancements, and many other things. I'd say that the most common perspective that is fought over is religion. And actually with time the same person could have a different opinion about something. Some people are more stubborn than others, but being stubborn goes along with peoples perspectives. Depending upon the subject, some people's perspectives can be changed. If a person does change his or her opinion, it's determined by the intensity of the event or assumption about something. And really, it's a good thing that a lot of people have different opinions, because if you two or more opinions about something you can get more information by piecing them together. I other words you get most of the facts straight.
At the time that the incident had occurred (9/11) I was 13 years old. I was in school when it had happened. I didn't even know about it until about an hour had passed by. I didn't know exactly what had happened until about 5 hours after it happened. When I had herd something about a plane crash, I was in my 2nd period electric class making some splices with my teacher, Mr. Nash. I didn't even know there was a plane crash at the time, the television was on and all I saw was smoke. I assumed it was a plane crash. Later, I got a little more information from Derek Corwin and Joel Babcock; I was in Gym at the time. I heard them talking about a plane crash in Pennsylvania or somewhere around there. The television was on in the Gym too and I saw the same thing, just smoke. Then as I said before I didn't hear about what had actually happened until later, 8th period to be precise. I remember exactly what I was wearing at the time, and it was the 1st time I had worn them too. I was wearing light beige khaki shorts and a black t-shirt with a gray over shirt.
It was very ironic that we were learning about the Taliban and Afghanistan a day before it all happened. So at least we had a little back-round information. Daily, we would get updates on what was happening with the United States and with Afghanistan. It helped because we (by we I mean our class?.) were learning about Afghanistan's past and why 9/11 occurred. It happened basically because they didn't want to accept change and also they felt that practicing Muslim was a better religion.
Once I found out what had happened I was devastated at how many people had died or had been injured. And it was bad enough that all of those people died but the Palestinians were dancing, singing and shouting at the death of many, many good people. I heard about 2, 7year old children that had guns and were celebrating with them.
I'm pretty sure that all Americans were devastated about 9/11, especially the families and friends of those who were lost or hurt on that day. Even though I wasn't in the disaster or knew anybody that got injured or killed, it still affected me. I was amazed at how people could be capable of such evil. Actually everybody has the potential to do something like that, but most people have moral principles. Except, I didn't know that a group of people whose religion taught them non-violence and peace would do that, in the name of their God. Well we're a bit hypocritical, for example; the Crusades, still that doesn't justify what they did. I thought people would be more civil about things like that, but as you can see my assumption was incorrect. There's always going to be disputes between people and nations, but I believe almost everybody will try and keep it minimal. It really doesn't help to be completely brainwashed from childhood, but the terrorists should have realized that they were doing something inhumane.