I woke up at 12 noon, completely oblivious to what was happening, to a doorbell ring from a friend. He came upstairs, mumbled a line about nyc and washington being bombed. He didn't say anything else, so i dismissed it as another program about "what if the US was attacked". We ate mcdonalds. We talked. I called up my friend because we were going to work on my car today. In the backround, I heard the sharp stressed voices of CNN new broadcasters. "NYC and DC have been bombed."

I hung up, turned on the news. I am still in total shock. September Eleventh, Two Thousand and One. A day that will live in infamy. Four plane crashes. One targeted at each of the two World Trade Center buildings. One straight to the heart of our military, the Pentagon. One, hypothesised to either be headed for Washington to bomb another building, or else, just completely coincidental [it seems now that i was hijacked, and the people on board were being patriotic (edit 2:23 pm)].

And in the aftermath, what is to come? A revitalization of terrorist activity. A shlew of monkey see monkey do copycats. An opening in our national security. A weakness. The economic setback put on this nation. A terrified virgin president who has to remain strong amidst the chaos.

Is that what the terrorists were thinking when they attacked us, the strongest country in the nation? Sadly, morbidly, I must thank them. Because of this attack, they have reinvoked national pride. They have set the ball rolling, and pushed us to act when we were complacent with living out our gluttunous American lives. As my friend's father has so stated, "It's like poking at a hornets nest with a stick." They have done nothing more then to make us angry, to make us stronger. We are a country who learns from our mistakes. It won't happen again, and if it does, it will only make things worse on themselves. They've been marked. Sooner or later, we will execute. The world should be afraid of our wraith. We have every right to seek and destroy.

I'd like to take a moment to give a few fairwell thoughts to the thousands of innocent victims who have died in this unneccessary incident. Our purest sympathy goes to the friends and families of the tragic, though we can do little more then offer you our thoughts and our hearts. I hope that we as a country will remember the pains of this tragedy, and let us be unified through the insanity.

To think... Just last night, I was innocent as a new born child, living out my life in the nation of nations, playing tetrinet with people across the United States of America. And to think... just last night, a few dozen individuals were having trouble sleeping... knowing tomorrow was their day of glory...