A Whole New Perspective of 9/11

After the Twin Towers fell in 2001, the most that I can remember as a kid was the coverage of the incredibly brave fireman and police officers. Which was definitely compelling, and their courage and hard work touched all of America, however I never really remembered learning anything about what the citizens of New York City were going through at the time of the attack. The movie Seven Days in September brings a whole different story of 9/11 than what I had been used to hearing. The movie was filmed purely by unknown by New Yorkers who were carrying cameras at the time and after the attack. The image of all the smoke from the towers is still stuck in my head, and will most likely stay there for the rest of my life. Not only were all the people trying to get inside covered by the smoke, but the sky was also completely covered by smoke. The smoke even blocked out the sun. One film maker filmed people getting out of the subway, and it looked like the world had just ended. All of New York was covered with smoke and debris, and it looked like someone had just bombed New York and destroyed the entire city. There was so much mass confusion between everyone after because everyone was taken by such surprise. People where coming up with different theories of who attacked America, how many places were attacked, etc. No one knew what to think of the previous events. However, the most amazing parts of the film were watching all of New York come together.

The only thing that New Yorkers could think to do after the attacks was to help each other recover. People were donating things from cookies and catered meals, to flashlights and batteries. Others were helping to make stretchers for the injured people lost in the ruble of what once was the Twin Towers. The amount of patriotism and unity that went on in New York was incredible. The only positive outcome of the 9/11 attacks was the amount of unity in New York that helped get almost all of the New Yorkers to be able to cope with the attack of the Twin Towers. What is funny about destruction is that usually the outcome is peace and patriotism. After World War II, even though America won the war and hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers were killed, the late forties and fifties became a time of great patriotism and America became very prosperous. People were working together to make America a better place. They had just been through the worlds greatest war, and now they just wanted to become a better country. After the 9/11 attacks the people had just gotten over one of the worst attacks on American soil, so to be able to get through all of the turmoil they had to have a lot of patriotism and work together to succeed.