Memorials and Conspiracies

     I want to take this time to talk about an American tragedy that is on my mind a lot. Yesterday was September 11th 2017 and of course is the anniversary of the 9/11 plane crashes in 2001 (as if I needed to clarify, I know) There are two sides to this event that I think about and consider a lot.

     The first part of this that is in my conscious thoughts regularly is the tragic and enormous amount of lives lost that day. I think constantly about the people who were on the surrounding floors and what they must have thought as things kept getting worse and worse by the second and the people who must have tried to call loved ones. It makes me think about what each decision could mean for me or someone around me, It also makes me think about how quick things could go from okay to not great to horrible to over.

I've always had death or fragility in my mind, even as a kid and that has made me feel kinda like Haley Joel Osment from 6th Sense. I wasn't a constant buzz kill but I can remember random times throughout my young life when I kinda took in the moment and thought, "This could be over in a moment if that car accidentally ran off the road and hit me and my friends right now." We went on a trip to Penn's Landing when I was in...I think 3rd grade and I gave a homeless guy 3 dollars. My thought was if things went down really bad that day at least he'll remember getting 3 dollars from someone. So 9/11 solidified that thought and made it so much more real to all of our lives. My generation made fun of the 50's when they had drills in case a bomb hit yet here we are in 2017, my store manager had to give instructions in case a shooter came in to the store. There are definite negative sides to thinking that way and I'm sure I'll go into that another time but for now I'm focusing on the more positive ways I was affected by 9/11

     And now for the other thing that haunts, entertains, intrigues (in a horrible way) and terrifies me. The 9/11 story we saw live, the dreaded thing that we never imagined could happen was NOT exacted as we were told. I know, I know...every kook and crazy talks about this and they all have crazy theories about why or how it really went down. There are way too many things left unanswered on purpose to just accept what was said through the media and our government.

     You've probably heard all the different theories and rumors and ideas of what was true and what was false if you have put any thought into this issue so I don't want to waste your attention with that but I do want to say that while I cannot say exactly what DID happen, I know for a fact that what NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) tries to hide is that they knew more than what was ever revealed and I do not have the ability to stick my head in the sand and pretend things like Tower 7 was a logical reaction to buildings near it getting hit by planes.

     I am not going to say that our government definitely perpetrated everything and killed our own people, I could absolutely believe that we as a country were not fully on alert when things were going on in front of some of us, leading to certain people doing things like setting bombs in the buildings and making it seem like they were doing other things.

At that time, I believe most of us didn't think this country could actually be attacked on a large scale. We were unsinkable in our minds and I could see even politicians feeling that way even after finding out there was a possible attack coming. And like the Titanic, we learned how the mighty could sink.
I'm also not ruling out the possibility that our government had some part in the events either. It's plausible that they knew in advance and could have stopped it in some way and the things we were told weren't entirely true.
     I've watched countless documentaries and read so many articles on this topic both for and against the conspiracies, so far the for the conspiracy theory videos are much more convincing.

Thank you for reading.