Assignment #2: Reaction to 9/11

Ten years ago, on September 11th, 2001, I remember that I was in my Std. 3 class when all hell broke loose. A teacher fell to the floor and screamed that her husband had died in a terrorist attack in New York.


For the rest of the day, there were no classes and everyone was praying for the rest of the day. At only age 7, I didn't quite comprehend what was going on and I didn't see the importance. I even remember making a horrid joke pondering about the significance of her loss when she could just get remarried. However, 10 years later, I realize how much this impacted on society. Many persons lost mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and other loved ones, even persons in Trinidad.

I am a member of the Tumblr society, and on the 10th anniversary of the attack, many persons blogged images of the day. Seeing those images made me wonder how those affected persons could ever recover from that experience. I also wondered how humans could be so inhumane to their fellow man. It occurred to me that persons usually start wars because of misunderstandings and misconceptions in the communication process, but that was as far as I got in my thoughts.