Better safe then sorry.

I believe I was only in 1st or 2nd grade at the time, but I must say I do remember that day. The principal had called all the school into the basement cafeiteria, and turned on the TV only to hear about the chaos going on in New York. Not until a few years later I realized what had happened. The older I got, the more I looked into it, it only brought about more questions. I realized that our actions went from doing the right thing, into making the whole situation a shady ordeal. We arent to sure what happened but whatever was planned was a sucess.

To say that we over reacted, initally, is obsured. I couldn't imagine having a family on the plane, or being in New York that day and dealing with that mess. The country sprang into action, and did what was on all the peoples minds. "It may had failed to advance Bin Laden's goal of promoting radical islamic caliphate, but when we saw the iconic towers falling to the ground.....we became unhinged with fear." The quote is so true, which goes back to the article I sent you about low tourism in the post 9-11 US. People became afraid to fly, take trains, go to work, it put a stop to our country and economy. But that was Al-Quieda and Bin Laden's plan all along. They wanted to instill fear into the people and that is what they suceeded with.