9/11

             I really liked the video that we watched in class.  I like how it was the only footage I've seen from inside the tower during the attacks, and how we could kind of see what the firefighters inside went through.  I also got a good view of the south tower falling from up close.  I read an article about how people remember the attacks.  Firefighters had the doors on their firehouse painted showing the towers.  There were also some pictures of people who had tattoos as their way to remember the attacks.  I lived in virginia about 15 minutes from Washington DC at the the time of the attacks.  My mom actually worked at the pentagon at the time of the attacks.  I rememeber my little sister being sick, which cause my mom to stay home that day.  She didn't work on that side of the pentagon that got hit, but she was always walking around she said, so you never know what could have happend.  I remember everybodies parents coming to pick them up from school.  My dad told me how he and his coworkers went to the roof of their building and saw the smoke coming up from the pentagon.  My parents lost a lot of friends who worked in the pentagon that day.
                 The impact of the attacks have influenced my life a lot.  I feel like there is no real privacy anymore.  You have to be careful about what you do and say on the interenet.  Airport security now takes forever to get through and is a real hassle.  Security has really been stepped up everywhere, now there are more cameras and security guards.  People these days are scared of flying on planes sometimes because of the attacks.  I feel like people have a lot of stereotypes towards people from the middle east because of the attacks now and just assume if they are middle eastern that they must be a terrorist.