Write A Narrative Essay About 9/11
I will never forget the morning of September 11,2001, and there are so many Americans that feels the same way. There was no banter between family members, were not talking about the usual every day life, instead there was live coverage of big events happening in downtown Manhattan. Though I was not fully wake, I tried to focus in on the T.V., I saw fire and smoke flowing from the World Trade Center, where there used to be two towers there was only one. As I watched, the news anchors spoke about how the missing tower had just collapsed, that woke me up; the news was immense.
I could no wake me eyes off my television, every channel, every radio station, everyone talking about the events unfolding in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. …show more content…
It was immediately us versus them. And although it has become more than evident that America¹s Most Wanted was indeed Osama Bin Laden, at the time of the broadcast there was an instant temptation to talk about the other, the bad guy as non-American and foreign. These sentiments were fueled by images broadcast in from the Middle East apparently celebrating the day¹s destruction, an act that further deepen the gap between good and evil.
Live coverage was carried on into the night, reflecting on the day¹s events. One newscast spoke to a psychologist both noted the significance that the terrorists had attacked the World Trade Center Towers, after all, the towers came to represent the power of capitalism. Another psychologist intervened and added that the towers were also powerful symbols; he suggested that the terrorists had in fact tried to deprive America of power.
So many people had images of America as a safe haven, they spoke about how with the, the U.S. had managed to endure unscathed through volatile times with the exception of Pearl Harbor. However, now with this act of terrorism in our own backyard, news stations were quick to paint a picture of America the victim. In more ways than one this was the beginning of the first war of the twenty-first century. September 11th merited broad and continuous news coverage; the horrors of the tower collapsing as well as the boldness of the terrorist acts
I could no wake me eyes off my television, every channel, every radio station, everyone talking about the events unfolding in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. …show more content…
It was immediately us versus them. And although it has become more than evident that America¹s Most Wanted was indeed Osama Bin Laden, at the time of the broadcast there was an instant temptation to talk about the other, the bad guy as non-American and foreign. These sentiments were fueled by images broadcast in from the Middle East apparently celebrating the day¹s destruction, an act that further deepen the gap between good and evil.
Live coverage was carried on into the night, reflecting on the day¹s events. One newscast spoke to a psychologist both noted the significance that the terrorists had attacked the World Trade Center Towers, after all, the towers came to represent the power of capitalism. Another psychologist intervened and added that the towers were also powerful symbols; he suggested that the terrorists had in fact tried to deprive America of power.
So many people had images of America as a safe haven, they spoke about how with the, the U.S. had managed to endure unscathed through volatile times with the exception of Pearl Harbor. However, now with this act of terrorism in our own backyard, news stations were quick to paint a picture of America the victim. In more ways than one this was the beginning of the first war of the twenty-first century. September 11th merited broad and continuous news coverage; the horrors of the tower collapsing as well as the boldness of the terrorist acts