THE ATTACK ON AMERICA
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

At age 10 my biggest problems have always been, Who are my friends,
what will I were and what am I doing on the weekend...
I have a loving family and home and have always felt safe and loved...

AS AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11
A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles.
carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and
two pilots, crashed into a tower of New York’s World Trade Center
AND UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 175
A Boeing 767 bound from Boston to Los Angeles.
carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants.
crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center .

I was asleep.. and when

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77
A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington to Los Angeles,
carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots,
crashed into the Pentagon and when
UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93
A Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco,
carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants
crashed southeast of Pittsburgh after it was belived to have missed it's target

I was still fast asleep and safe in my bed
because I am from Australia and it was about 11pm...

I am not American, I have never been to America and I didn't know anybody in America at the time of the attack
So why would it matter to me well I hope to share why with you in my story...

I have never felt the grief that the family and friends of the victims lost in the attack on America are feeling,
and I have never felt the fear or terror of the victims,
Because I am just a child and in my world things like this didn't happen...

I woke that morning about 8 hours after the first attack
I watched the news with my Mum but I have to be honest I didnt understand
and I was really just worried about being late to school
After school I went home and the news was still on the TV ,
after awhile I started to understand not what had happend
but that all these people had lost there lives

Then I started to ask my mum questions about it all that my mum answered in a way for 10 year olds,
but I could tell the words that she said didn't match the look on her face..
So I decided to watch the news myself and try to understand what was happening
but the more I watched the news , The less I understood what had happened,
but I did understand the loss of life and the victims
and the people left to cope with the loss of friends and love ones.
I watch the news for the next two days whenever I got the chance
but after I had asked my Mum if a loud car backfireing
could have been a bomb my Mum decided that I had seen enough.
I still don't understand the hate and that people could
take other peoples lives so easily.
I do worry that what has happened in America can happen anywhere.
I also wonder who is Usama Bin Larden, did he never have a family
was he never taught respect or how to love and care
how can a man think so little of other peoples lives
I also wonder about the terorists on the planes,
what would make them want to kill them self
what would make them want to die without honor to die
being hated by millions of people did they never know
love or care for the gift of life..
I will never understand how people can dance in the street
like they did in afganastan singing and waving there flag
most of them were just kids , kids that are being taught to hate ..
they can not be human at all.

The 11th of September 2001 attack on America destroyed not
only the two World Trade Center towers in New York City,
a chunk of the Pentagon in Washington, and caused uncountable loss of life,
but it also made a 10 year old girl in Australia no longer feel safety
in an unsafe world so full of hate and very , very sick people.
For me, it has been an eye-opener, as frightening as it is,
that a child's inosent unawareness has been replaced,
with an adult's more clear-eyed view of the world and its sometimes horrifying ways.
horrifying ways that I think even as an adult I could never understand

So to all America and the rest of the world that have lost friends
and love ones in this tragic attack on America
please no that although I am just a little girl in Australia that can not
feel the grief.. your tears are my tears and your fear is now also my fear. And my best wishes go to every one lost and who lost in this Tragedy...

By Hayley

Thanks to my mum who I love so very much
for helping me with this page

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