Where where you when the first plane collided? 911- We all remember and will never forget. I was in a combined 7th grade homeroom when a kid told me that a suicide bomber had crashed a plane into the world trade center. I wasn't quite sure what that looked like, but I remember watching the clips in the news several times over.
The pain for some will never fade, but people will never forget the local hero's who embraced the tragedy that day and risked their lives to save those in need.
That is the bottom line, people didn't need to go in the way that they had, much skepticism has been raised over the years since the incident, some sources even claiming that our own government had committed the crime. There is some interesting controversy over the event that has many, including me, baffled by the science behind it and the absolutely perfect demolition of the towers. There is no video evidence of a plane crashing into the pentagon either, which many street and campus video surveillance cameras should have easily have captured.
When I was younger I was highly into the hidden cover ups and distrust of the government. Now you can do simple Google searches for images and common interest to gather your own opinion over the skepticism. At the time there was a hugely popular video called the Zeitgeist which thoughtfully explained their beliefs through several bent, but somewhat compelling examples that at age 17 I couldn't ignore. With a run time of 122 minutes, there was a storm of information to take in, truth or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie
(First the starts off with smashing any sort of religion, expressing many real sources of similarities between the major religions, (more than I can remember, mainly honing in on Christianity for its popularity in the states and mostly English speaking culture) and the second part of the video providing the "911 coverup." In the end the movie is guided to bring people together and to separate all differences in order to progress further into society and modern technology. (With a cleaner, greener planet, who needed to argue over religion?) It included the "corruption" of the banks and the confusion behind FDA banks that allow interest to the private sector to explaining how inflation works and the lost value of the dollar over accumulating interest without physical money. (As if paper had any real value anyway.)
Some of the more recent documentaries provide even more compelling evidence that propels the question further, why? On the hit t.v. show Bones, an episode mentions the canny impossibilities behind the collapse, however, resolve on the fact that it is a day to be remembered for all the innocent people who passed that day. Last year, I watched an entire documentary on the History Channel (Yes, the HISTORY CHANNEL) with my significant other, and her grandparents, where until just recently in my opinion, the thought was considered absurd to anyone without basic computer skills. (2007) Many senior Americans and middle aged persons were not tech savoy and were not surfing the web like rabid teenagers on AIM or AOL instant messenger.
"3. Conspiracy Theory: WTC fires did not burn hot enough to melt structural steel.
3A. No building built out of structural steel that is designed to house people has ever collapsed before or since 9/11 due to structural fire. And there are many, not just one or two, there are many instances where fires have burned much hotter and much longer, and stood.
3B. [Sofia] Jet fuel is a hydrocarbon, that's all. It maxes out in a controlled burn at 1800 degrees. Steel starts melting at 2750 degrees. Now we're 1000 degrees apart, and office fires burn at this really low temperature of 600-800 degrees.
So regardless of the fuel, the temperature of an office fire is not sufficient to weaken steel.
"Expert" Response
4A. As the debris flew through the building at almost 500 mph it caused equivalent to sandblasting all the steel.
So all the fireproofing came off and that meant that the steel was naked, it would have been subject to the fire."
This particular quote taken from History Channel 911 blogger.com, and you can find many more.
As far as I'm concerned (and hopefully the rest of the country) the war on terrorism didn't make us money, the U.S. economy is still suffering from the costs, so what could provoke such a tragic attack? Did you Know the trade center had previously been attacked in the early 1990's, here I'll share that for you guys who aren't history majors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
Pretty crazy right? Well as far as I'm concerned it was because of Aliens. Actually I really wouldn't take a guess at it, but it makes for a great science fiction novel. I actually discussed the possibilities of writing it over dinner tonight. Yeah, who else would it be? Just plain weird, that's all.
