Trent Jensen

Trent J.

September 11, 2001

As a politician said, it was a date which will live in infamy. Those were the words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. It also seemed like everyone was comparing Sept. 11 and its events to Pearl Harbor. I found out what happened that day while I was in school. It was passing time between first and second hour when one of my friends said that a plane hit the World Trade Center. I got to my second hour and the television was showing what had happened and I couldn’t believe it. I was in complete shock. My head was telling me that this couldn't be happening. It seemed like something out of a movie. Both towers had been hit. Then I found out that the Pentagon had been hit to and my heart sank. All I could think about was how many innocent people died. The idea that someone would want to do this made me sick and made my stomach twist into knots. We watched the news for most of the hour. For the rest of the day when I walked into my classes the television was on the news. At the end of all my classes we turned the television on to see if anything new had happened. I got home that day and I didn’t turn the television on because I knew the only thing on would be news and I didn't want to see the same thing over and over again. For the rest of the week I didn't watch any television because I got tired of hearing about the tragedy. A person with a conscience can only hear or see a tragedy before it starts to bother them. I also didn't want to get out of bed in the morning until about a week after all of this. I figured what is the point of getting out of bed to see more death and destruction. It's amazing what a few terrorists can do to a country and its people.