When I was in the first grade I saw 9/11 on TV. My mother was crying and my father had left for work and I was scared that my mother was so sad but at the time I didn’t really know what was going on because I was too young to understand. The later it went on, the more information came in and I grew more knowledgeable about what happened. Every year when we have a moment of silence for the 9/11 attacks I have fear in my head but I know that the US is staying strong after this. On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden was killed by US troops in Pakistan. My initial reaction was that I was happy but the more I thought about it the worse it gets because there will always be consequences and repercussions after something as big as this. Weather there is fringe groups or other Al-Queada leaders there definitely will be repercussions. I was not alive but I was informed that in 1993, Bin Laden tried to explode a bomb near the world trade center in New York. This to me, makes it better that he is now dead. For some reason I got the impression that Osama was very old because he had been in the terrorism incidents for years but he was only about 54 years old and that means he could have kept putting on damage to the us for many more years. So to me, it was very important that we had him killed. I will never take pride in killing a person but I will have pride in our country. When I first heard that Osama had been killed, I first thought about what that meant to this country and how big of a deal it was. Once it set in I started to take to my teachers and my parents about what this meant. With my parents, they thought it was very important mostly to their generation because they were here and mature during his reign of horror. My teachers talked about how it affected a certain age group also and that there will most likely be repercussions of what happened. We also talked about how it is better if they are more organized because a chaotic number of fringe groups can get very bad who will just do anything in response to the killing of Osama. One more thing that people, teachers and news stations are talking about is if Pakistan already knew the whereabouts of him. This concerns me because that could mean there is more underground terrorism going on that the US should know about. I think that we need to do what ever it takes to stop the war on terror. We are obviously trying to do that but I think that should be the number one priority which I think it is right now. This has been a good free write and I thank you for the time you are giving us to discuss such topics in class.
