The Tragedies Of September 11, 2001 Affected People

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Terror The tragedies of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 affected people in many different ways. For me, it was a time of wonder and worry. My Aunt lives right in Manhattan where the World Trade Center was attacked. For the first couple hours of the attack, we did not hear from her. I went to visit my mom in Des Moines and my Aunt finally emailed her at school. She was not able to use telephones or her cell phone, so email was the only way to keep in contact with her. She was not able to get home till later that night, because the police would not let her across the Brooklyn Bridge. Then, ten days 14 days later, we got a call from her asking us to buy her a gas mask. She said it is absolutely horrible smelling because of all the dust and 6,000 rotting bodies. Another way it affected me personally was it was my moms 50th birthday…show more content…
I have a serious boyfriend and a brother who could be called for it. Losing them for a stupid war is the one thing that I really think about when deciding what I would like the United States to do. I also sometimes worry about if they were to get a hold of nuclear weapons and completely wipe out our entire country. I am planning on being a teacher and this is one thing that I will have to teach to my students. I will hopefully be teaching first grade, and I will have to figure out a tactful way of telling them what happened, because some of the stuff you cant explain to six year olds, and frankly some of the stuff, they shouldnt know until they are 9 or 10 and mature enough to handle the gruesome details. For example, they dont need to know that there were 6000 rotting bodies lying on the streets and there are random body parts lying everywhere. And when it was happening that people were jumping out of the windows and they would land right in front of a person standing on the ground. Some of it, they just couldnt handle and comprehend at such a young

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