September 11, 2007-Six Years Later (standard:non fiction, 1870 words)
Author: Lori	Added: Sep 14 2007	Views/Reads: 3263/2185	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The title says it all, but the category may leave you wondering why I used this one. Even though it's an editorial, there's so much truth in it. 9/11 should never be categorized! But I have to put it somewhere.

September 11, 2007-Six Years Later 

By: Lori 

I will tell you now is WILL NOT be like other tributes to 9/11. I'm
going to be open and honest, not that anyone else hasn't been. I'm 
going 

to express MY thoughts and feelings. If you think you may be offended,
or if you think you may get ticked, you see the red “X” at the top of 
the page? That's the button to  click on NOW! I'm not going to hem-haw 
around this issue. I'm going to tell it like it is. I'm not going to 
sugar-coat it. I don't think that does the person/s who died any good. 
I'm going to respect them and show what, in my opinion, really came 
from 9/11. First things first though, some facts you may not be aware 
of. 

Total Deaths 

All 9/11 Attacks 	3,030 	*Total Deaths 

WTC 9/11 Attack 	2,801 

Total Injured 

All 9/11 Attacks 	2,337 	Total Injured 

WTC 9/11 Attack 	2,261 

Total Deaths 9/11 Attack 

The Pentagon (Ground) 	124 	Firefighter Deaths 

WTC 9/11 Attack 	343 

Total Injured 9/11 Attack 

The Pentagon 	76 	Police Deaths 

WTC 9/11 Attack 	75 

American Airlines Flight 77 

The Pentagon 	64 	American Airlines Flight 11 

WTC North Tower 	92 

United Airlines Flight 93 

Shanksville, PA 	40 	United Airlines Flight 175 

WTC South Tower 	65 

*In December 2002 the Total Deaths from the WTC Attack was revised to
2,792. 

Did I blow it up big enough for you? Can you see what happened? Do you
feel our pain? How about our shame? What about our agony? Can you see 
our stupidity? Yes I said STUPIDITY! The powers in charge knew it could 
happen and they ignored it, hence the stupidity. 

We had, and have, a President who is making/made his own agenda for this
tragedy. He went after the wrong man. He had us believing this man, who 
I'm not going to give the respect of saying his name, had weapons of 
mass destruction. When Bush found out that he didn't his comment was oh 
well he would have made them sooner or later. Now granted those weren't 
his exact words, but that is what I heard. Here is what he said the 
day, or the day after, it happened. 

"I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it.
I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this 
struggle for freedom and security for the American people." 

In my opinion he has forgotten who inflicted this wound upon our souls.
He has yielded the search for Bin Laden. He has rested on the issue of 


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