Never Forget

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            The day was September 11, 2001 in New York City, for many it was just another Tuesday morning but that was all about to change when a man by the name of Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist organization called Al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and flew two of them into the World Trade Center. The world was in shock as how the biggest superpower in the world could be dropped to their knees in defeat. The image shows destruction and mayhem. It also shows how just one man can destroy a symbol of Americana and destroy the American spirit. It wasn’t just a person destroying two buildings in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C, and a field in Pennsylvania. He also took the lives of 3,000 people and destroyed the families affected through these terrific acts. I got this picture from a website called “Activist Post” who was doing this article talking about the 15^th remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attack   but I could not find who took the picture. 

The picture shows the last three standing steel bars that made the World Trade Center exoskeleton and around it is the debris and ash covering everything around it. Also if you focus to the bottom center of the picture you can see a couple of firemen just looking at what used to be the World Trade Center while their fire truck is destroyed from the falling concrete.

This terrorist attack made every country in the world from Japan to England aware of how much destruction Al-Qaeda and their leader and dish out onto the world. The days following countries around the world showed support for the United States. But not just that even the own citizens of the United States rejoiced in patriotism for the red, white and blue because we thought just because they destroy our buildings doesn’t mean they destroyed our spirit of being Americans.

This photograph is a remembrance of what happened that day but there is a few things that the photographer could focus more on. For starters the photographer could have focused more on the light beaming down from the heavens on what used to be the World Trade Center and a little more on the debris and carnage surrounding the former building. Changing those things in this picture would get a little of a darker message to what happened on that day in September. But it would also show more of the destruction that was caused by Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. 

The significance for me picking this picture is because the older I get the more people don’t know what happened because they weren’t born yet or for some people they just think “Some people did something” (Rep. Omar). But more importantly it’s to remind people of what happened that September day. I don’t believe that after deconstruction and reconstructing this picture has changed my viewpoint on it. I just hope on day people can see it as a terrorist attack from Bin Laden instead of blaming President Bush and making memes about the tragedy.

“That Time Of Year – Traditional 9/11 Official Story Psychosis Sweeps Nation.” That Time Of Year – Traditional 9/11 Official Story Psychosis Sweeps Nation, 11 Sept. 2015, http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/that-time-of-year-traditional-911-official-story-psychosis-sweeps-nation.html.