Iconic Images of 2000's

I didn’t understand the significance of the date 9/11. It was seventh grade when i looked on the board in Math and saw the date written on the top corner, underneath a small phrase about hope. I was so confused, what was so special about this date? And then after the announcements, my tall blonde teacher with sad eyes turned on the projector and played a video. Footage and photos of something so tragic and incredible, how could something like this ever happen? And how come I'd never heard about it? I kept quiet, in shock. Some girls whispering to each other, boys making inappropriate remarks. I still don't understand why boys make jokes out of such serious issues, but I guess that's a different topic. When I went home that day I told my dad I’d never heard of 9/11 before, he got angry and said Allison that is ridiculous of course you have. Big things like that make him uncomfortable to talk about it, I can tell, so I just dropped the subject. Since then, every year my mom and I watch 9/11 documentaries when they come on. I think getting more information about a subject like this is painful but it makes it easier to understand. Although I’ve learned so much about what happened, there’s still so much I don’t get. I’ve read a lot of articles talking about how the terrorist organization that did this has nothing to do with the place we went to war with, that President George Bush used people’s fear of terrorism as a tool to get re-elected, start a war, etc. I don’t like politics sometimes. Even though it’s been four years since that day in seventh grade, I feel just as uneducated about what happened on 9/11.