9/11 Conspiracy Essay
There was secret chatter amongst our teachers and an awkwardness fell upon the students. The dean of students whispered something to my teacher and his reaction was quite alarming. My teacher struggled to teach again, and he tried to break down what the dean of students had said to him before. The students and I were puzzled at what he was trying to say. An attendant rolled in the television, I thought to myself cool we’re watching a video I can go to sleep. Before my teacher could turn the TV, he said “Let’s pray for those lives who were lost this day.” He turned on the television, and were shocked at what we saw. Is this fiction? Is this true? A day that will never be forgotten, September 11, 2001.
I was in the eighth grade in Mr. Snow’s …show more content…
However, years later in my first year of my undergraduate government class, the subject of September 11 came up, and during the lecture my professor used words like: cover-up, conspiracy, and set-up. This lecture peaked my interest, so I wanted to know more about the event to prove my professor’s claims. I went onto google and researched 9/11 conspiracy. Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano states, “It’s hard for me to believe that building seven of the World Trade Center, came down by itself. I think that twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us” (Hananoki, 2010, para 4). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rebutted those claims of a government cover up. NIST stated that fire alone brought down the building, referring to the fire inspection report (Cohen, 2008). In other words, thermal expansion of diesel fuel was the culprit to the building seven collapsing not a government cover. However, David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, authors of Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts, indicate that the NIST report downplays the facts about the diesel fuel that was stored in tanks, for backup generators, did not burn long enough or ho enough to account for structural failures (2006, p. 42). I believe there was more information the government could have disclosed but they chose not to divulge that
I was in the eighth grade in Mr. Snow’s …show more content…
However, years later in my first year of my undergraduate government class, the subject of September 11 came up, and during the lecture my professor used words like: cover-up, conspiracy, and set-up. This lecture peaked my interest, so I wanted to know more about the event to prove my professor’s claims. I went onto google and researched 9/11 conspiracy. Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano states, “It’s hard for me to believe that building seven of the World Trade Center, came down by itself. I think that twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us” (Hananoki, 2010, para 4). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rebutted those claims of a government cover up. NIST stated that fire alone brought down the building, referring to the fire inspection report (Cohen, 2008). In other words, thermal expansion of diesel fuel was the culprit to the building seven collapsing not a government cover. However, David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, authors of Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts, indicate that the NIST report downplays the facts about the diesel fuel that was stored in tanks, for backup generators, did not burn long enough or ho enough to account for structural failures (2006, p. 42). I believe there was more information the government could have disclosed but they chose not to divulge that