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 * How we as individuals and as a country deal with a violent world, or what our reaction to violence is.**

The day the towers fell was a day of mourning, grieving, death and chaos. The televisions blared the news in almost all homes at one point or another throughout that day. The planes hitting the towers and taking them from their ultimate sight, to their rubble. It was a day that people took up to pointing fingers, saying the attack was of terrorism. Immediately, war was demanded in consequence to the attack changing our lives dramatically. This was our response to violence.

From this attack came the "War against Terrorism." The people of the US are split into various opinions of this war. The people fully devoted to this war, and its efforts to destroy the chances of another attack, are often those either in the war themselves or simply patriotic. Towns support their troops off at war as a whole, "A town draped in patriotism,"(http://inourtime.wikispaces.com/Chapter+2) and the troops are often off fighting in the belief of helping their country, "Ready to fight for our country.."(http://inourtime.wikispaces.com/Chapter+1). Yet, even with this patriotism around there are still some who see a different side to it. "I never want to go back and see more people die. It's hell in that place, people just killing each other, blood's everywhere."(http://inourtime.wikispaces.com/Chapter+20) Men and women who have faught in the war are changing their opinions left and right. They want nothing to do with the war, and would much rather have it stopped. Lastly, there were the people that suffer from this war, the ones mourning for the lost ones that had once fought and died trying. "A day later, the coffins arrived. I didn’t come to see the grand entrance of the flags and gun shots in salute, I came to see my baby girl be buried beside five others. That night, my life was over and silence overcame my home. With the flag above my fireplace, all neat in its triangular fold. I fell asleep to live a life of an antiwar woman.The patriotism ended"(http://inourtime.wikispaces.com/Chapter+2).

As a country our initial reaction to violence is violence itself. We feel that from the deaths of the people up in those towers that there should be a consequence, more of a revenge tactic than a clear solution. And, in life, there was death that was fully and certainly accepted for the sake of a dream to end the terrorism thrust onto the towers, “He’s in love with the military — that’s what he wants. He wants to serve his country. ... He served his mission in life."(http://inourtime.wikispaces.com/Chapter+31). Individually it was our choice to either agree or disagree with this retaliation, but as a country a voice is very small.




 * Quotes**

"ready to fight for our country.. or at least that’s what we thought we were doing… " [chapter1]

"A town draped in patriotism" [chapter 2]

"I never want to go back and see more people die. Its hell in that place, people just killing each other, bloods everywhere." [chapter 20]

"I know why I made the choice I made; I know why I quit military life. It wasn’t just incidents like that, once we were ordered to stop a demonstration in Baghdad. When we arrived there were only civilians, but HQ informed us that terrorists were hiding in civilian outfits, ready to kill us should we turn our backs, we opened fire. Moving around the dead, bleeding bodies that littered the ground moments after, I saw children, I saw women, and I saw innocents." [chapter 33]

"A day later, the coffins arrived. I didn’t come to see the grand entrance of the flags and gun shots in salute, I came to see my baby girl be buried beside five others. That night, my life was over and silence overcame my home. With the flag above my fireplace, all neat in its triangular fold. I fell asleep to live a life of an antiwar woman. The patriotism ended. " [chapter 2]

“He’s in love with the military — that’s what he wants. He wants to serve his country. ... He served his mission in life." (chapter 31)