9/11

It was shocking. Though I was watching that tragedy on TV, I could not believe what was going on. I was just able to imagine that the tragedy had a strong impact on the world.

My friends and I went see Ground Zero when I visited New York. I still could not believe that the tragedy really happened. Then, I saw that there was a flower placed on a fence. It made me think that the tragedy really occurred in September 11, 2001.

Actually, I do not see how shocked American people were by that tragedy, but I strongly feel sympathy. Why did ordinary people die out of nowhere? How come terrorists exist on earth?

When I was walking around Ground Zero, one American talked to me and asked, "What do you think about 9/11?" I just said, " It was tragedy. I feel sympathy about American people." Then, he asked me, "Do Japanese people compare 9/11 with anything to think about the tragedy?" I replied, "We tend to compare it with what you dropped atomic bombs in Japan." The situations between 9/11 and World War Two were very different, but I think that we Japanese were shocked as much as American people about 9/11. Although I could not answer him much since my English was not very good, he understood me.

I reconsidered terrorists by visiting Ground Zero. I hope that there will be no terrorists on earth and that kind of tragedy will never happen again.