Sunday, April 17, 2011

The things i've carried

9/11 2001 i wake up in my house and everyone is silenced and as i wonder why i head upstairs and there is my Father, Brother and room mate Hank all sitting there in stunned silence as the a plane hit tower 2. When i went to school that day i had no idea that an incident of such magnitude had happened, and even though they tried to explain it to us my second grade mind all i cared about was getting to recess and playing Pokemon. Now that i look back on this incident and if it happened today there are a few things that roll through my mind, that it was a horrible incident and if it truley had nothing to do with any of the recent conspiricy theorys then it was a horrible horrible thing. My views upon it are entirly different (as if this is any surprise) i believe that it was a tool used to build fear among the citizens of thi contry and those in the middle east and to build the term coined "Post 9/11 patriotism" as a way to get the American citizens to along with this war and the search for WOMD, but really it was just a way to infiltrate, get oil and set up a democracy instead of letting them figuring it out for themselves but i digress, we shoulld not be in Iraq but to pull out now would show weakness, i mean pulling out over time is the definate plan of action we should take just like they did in vietnam and the vietnam war was also the same story as iraq, just fake an attack to build suppport and go in for oil. "Fight wars for virtue. your virtue is greed, Say it's for god but your god is naive".

1 comment:

  1. Austin,

    I appreciate your reflection and thought on this topic. It looks like you have given this some thought about this issue a lot.

    I was your age (11th grade) when 9/11 occurred. To this day, I'll never forget how I, too, came downstairs and it was really quiet as my little brother watched the TV. It was a very scary, strange day.

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