Why are the 9/11 attacks on America such a difficult issue for Americans to deal with today?

Question

I know this may seem like an obvious question because it is such a strong issue, but the reason I am asking this is:
I am currently doing my History Coursework and have chosen this for my topic. Because it is the summer holidays I can't speak to my teacher about it and get any advice from him.
I have a couple of sub-topics im going to research and include in my answer, but if anyone has anymore ideas, please can we offer me some help...
so, "Why are the 9/11 attacks on America such a difficult issue for Americans to deal with today?"

Answer 1

This may sound a little harsh, but I don't believe that the psychological aspect of what happened is really even at the front of our minds as a nation anymore. Rather, it's the logistical impacts that 9/11 created that are being felt the most. We're in two wars. Our economy sucks balls. Unemployment is high, and the only jobs available are shitty entry level positions to places you don't want to work anyway. It takes 2 hours to get through security in the airport. You can't bring toothpaste or hair gel above certain sizes on planes in your carry on bag. I could keep going, but I think you get the point.

Answer 2

1 - it only happened 9 years ago, we still remember the people dieing. And for those that lost family members... Well how would you feel if your dad were covered in jet fuel on fire and jumped twenty-two stories just to end it?



#2 - The war - they are still using 9/11 as reason to send our friends into battle.



#3 - It scared the living **** out of people when it happened. Most people thought that was the beginning of a battle here which is why the war was supported in the first place.



#4 - The government has done everything in their power to maintain the fear it instilled. They even made a color coding system to let us know how in danger we are everyday. Granted most people have seen through it, but it still sucks.



#5 - Nothing in our country has been the same since... It is really sad. The economy is dieing, education is dieing, our friends are in a war we know nothing about and they don't talk about, we can't travel without being scared, we hear about how dangerous everything is all the time, there is no tolerance, no peace, no unity... The turning point that we can all place is 9/11.



2000 words is not very much once you start writing. Pick three points you think you can write about, do your intro and your conclusion. I bet with just that you run over. If I were doing it I would break it down to the impact of 9-11 on American Government, the impact on citizens and the impact on the world. So how has the government influenced how we "get over it", citizens to eachother, and how other nations have affected it.

Answer 3

It's not just the fact that many people lost their lives because of the war and terror that struck on 9/11 but because that war is still going on. Maybe not so much through publicity but many Americans as well as soldiers from other countries die because of fighting to protect their country so what has happened in the past won't happen again in the future. It hasn't really ended, even though it's been nearly 9 years. We hear so much about bomb plots, planned terrorist attacks etc and it just goes back into people's mind what has happened and that there are still people out there who will not only agree with it but who will also try and do such an attempt like it to kill innocent lives.



It also effects people on a religious base. Which can lead then onto racist remarks, protests, violence, gangs etc. Something that is so minor can make such a large effect.

When I mean minor, I don't mean that 9/11 was minor but to put it a simple way, terrorists his buildings, innocent people die, we all grieve and we all move on. That's what's reguarded as minor about it but the actual tragedy itself is obviously major. And it still goes on effecting lives all over.

Answer 4

It is not difficult for only the American people to deal with; I was at home in England when this happened, I had just walked into the sitting room and turned on the T.V. to find that some disaster movie must have over run its time slot, a particularly distasteful one which had reached the point where a plane was hanging from one of the Twin Towers into which it had obviously crashed. A moment later I felt that something was very wrong with the voice over material, it did not have the flow and control of a rehearsed speech but before I could do more than dismiss the possibility that it was actually real and a news bulletin, the second plane flew into the second tower. How can any one describe the sense of horror they felt at the moment they realised it was real, whenever that was? We hear about attacks, we see the news reel of the aftermath but we do not watch them happen on our own televisions and in our own homes!



Nor was that the last disaster, it was just that the rest did not seem to be so terrible by comparison..no one in the world was ready to see what we saw that day. Children with their mothers watching the news saw it, their mothers were to shocked to turn it off..people in bars saw it n big screen t.v.s.others hard in on the radios in their cars...it was not something that had happened yesterday or a decade past, it was going on while we watched and there was nothing we could do about it! And then to hear of the flight that was deliberately crashed by its passengers when they realised that they were part of it all ... how can you even imagine such courage? Every person aboard that flight should be awarded the purple heart, they were civilians but in a war that forced them to act as a militia in defence of their fellow citizens... That day the world lost its sense of security ..our skies were full of thousands of terrible weapons that we used for transport, our cities with building that had been designed to be easily recognised from considerable distances and not even the intelligence services of the U.S, had been able to prevent this from happening because it did not take a great organisation with vast sums of money to accomplish, but only a few men with fanatical hatred and limited contact with each other and whoever else was involved.



I can only liken the trauma the world suffered that day to the kinning of JFK, but as that is longpast and you have heard about it as history,you can not feel the way people did who, again,were watching their T.V.s when they saw it happen.



Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Since the Revolutionary War ( 1776) , the US has not really been attacked on our own soil.

Sure, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was sort of American Soil, but it was a territory, not a state, and far far away from the lives of most Americans in 1941.



So the attack ON OUR OWN SOIL is something most Americans have not dealt with. Emotionally, it is different -- it feels vulnerable.

To me, the second point is media coverage. We didn't just see the planes hit the World Trade Center -- we saw it over and over and over, for WEEKS. Same for the Pentagon, and the other plane that crashed. Emotionally, in our brain, it wasn't an experience that happened , and that we then started dealing with. It was , in some ways like a movie that we saw over and over and over.



And the media is still talking about it and showing pictures. To me, there hasn't been much let up - the tragedy is still be covered, so we can't mentally process it, and try to deal and heal.

Answer 6

Well one reason its so hard to deal with is because so many people died. always remember that its the most obvious. So many family members and good friends all died in 9/11. Another reason was because this was something that came out of the blue and shocked many americans . I remember being in school and being evacuated early because of the bomb threat . That scared me and i didnt know what was going on.

Answer 7

I think 3 of the reasons are cos 1 the number of people who died, 2 the fact that they were all innocent people just at work earning money for their families, and 3 the almost unbelievable idea that someone could and would want to hijack a plane and crash it into a skyscraper

Answer 8

It is still hard for Americans to deal with because it was very traumatic since a lot of people died and a lot of people were seriously injured. People still miss their loved ones who had died. People still have to deal with the after affects and make adjustments to their lives since some people lost limbs and had a lot of other damage done to them.

Answer 9

While many of the above reasons are excellent, I think the main reason is that we thought that we were invincible and 9/11 proved that we are not. It shook our world.

Answer 10

In several nutshells, there were lots of deaths in a very public place, a large thing got knocked down (so general panic), there was a clear terrorist threat, there was a figurehead (Osama Bin Laden)...etc.

Answer 11

I applaud you selina.evans...

Answer 12

because you americans are all fat