Personal Narrative: My First Terrorist Attack

“Fire, bullets, death” that’s everything I saw when I was in Afghanistan. I open my eyes, i’m at work again, but, everytime I close my eyes I see all the tragedies that happen over there. Before war everyone use to tell me, “Jeff don’t be too shy” or if not “Jeff you are so loveable and friendly with everyone.” Brandon Wallace was my best friend since childhood, he even went to war with me. Then there's, my lovely wife, Nicole Sebastian, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever met. I was in my senior year in high school when army men came to my school and ask for recruiters for war. At that moment I asked myself, “what am I going to do after high school? Am I going to survive in war? Should I enter myself in this situation?” After all, I out my name down, my heart was pounding, my breath was hard, I knew there wasn’t no turning back. When I got home

On April 19th 1995 the worst terrorist attack on US soil took place in the heartland of America. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was targeted and almost completely blown to pieces by one enormous homemade bomb. The unthinkable had happened at the beginning of an average day at the office. This day would be remembered for the rest of America's history, unlike any other day, as a blatant attack on the United States government.

It was a sunny day here in New Jersey, I was getting ready to go see the Twin towers memorial the next day."Julie! Come down here please we need to talk!"said my mother.

and talked and then we left to go get some small items at Walmart like shampoo and socks and Groceries the we left Walmart. But as we left, we ran into some old friends we sat and talked and turns out they were going to the Rushmore Mall they asked us to tag along with them so we agreed and we followed them there as we arrived at the mall in was packed people everywhere we hit a couple stores in the mall and told our friends that we are leaving as we proceed to leave the mall The

I remember the stigma Muslims like me had faced following 9/11. We were the subject of hate crimes and the unfortunate acceptor of ridicule. It was in the 5th grade that I was first called a “terrorist” and it truly devastated me. I was being bullied, and it was only a matter of time until I mustered up enough courage to fight the foolish stereotype. It was a feeling of ecstacy and relief to have stood up for myself and end the victimization I had gone through. From that day forward, I made a vow to stand up against bullying in any way possible.

It is now lunch, I have called my mother and she is okay. For lunch I ate a 6” sub from Subway. So far all I have gotten was flirty looks from girls, and obscene gestures from their boyfriends. I honestly don’t know if this day can get any more boring.

Afterwards a worker comes up to me and says in a rude tone “may I help you” and “I said no thank you I’m just looking” and so the worker left then I picked up my stuff and walked to another part of the store and then the same worker came back and said “can I help you look for something” and I said “no thank you I’m just looking”. At this point I looked for my friend and we both started looking around the store and the worker started to follow us. Finally we both left the store because our movie was about to start and as we were leaving the security guard followed us out of the store and I thought he was going to follow us to the movie theatre but thank God he didn’t. Finally I called my mom and I told her what happened and she told me to go to the movie and to try calm down and to enjoy

Living the United State when one thinks of a terrorist attacks often their mind will first go to a larger scale attack such as the events of September 11th 2001. “September 11, 2001 changed the United States forever, the terrorist attack that day marked a dramatic escalation in a trend toward more destructive terrorist attacks which began in the 1980s. It also reflected a trend toward more indiscriminate targeting among international terrorists. The vast majority of the more than 3,000 victims of the attack were civilians. In addition, the attack represented the first known case of suicide attacks carried out by international terrorists in the United States.” (Waston, 2002) However as the years have gone by we have come to learn that terrorist attacks are not always on a large scale and that even one person who is inspired by the ideologies of a terrorist group without being directly connected to them can carry out attacks. Those that engage in this type of terrorism are referred to as lone wolf terrorist. A recent example of such an even was the mass shooting at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center in December of 2015.

On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, a Boeing 767-222 aircraft plummeted into the twin towers. Boarding 56 passengers including 5 hijackers. After the incident, no survivors were found all passengers and more were found dead at the scene.

Multiple groups and civilians have responded to the terrorist attack 9/11 in different ways, having different viewpoints, values, and ideologies. George W.Bush who was the President of the United States of America at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was against what occurred. George W.Bush talks about the incident as being a monumental day in our nations history, and how he went from being a “President primarily focused on domestic issues to a war time President”, something he never anticipated or wanted (27). George W.Bush valued America and it’s rights to freedom and believed that whoever was responsible for this act of terrorism is held responsible. His values and beliefs can be seen as a conservatism ideology as he believes terrorists must be stopped and destroyed, he doesn’t believe that militant Islamists can peacefully co-exist with the Western world, forever will be on going attacks on America implicated by Islamic terrorists (28). Conservatisms believe that terrorism posses one of the greatest threats to the United States of America (34).

that we're conditioned to not ask questions and have been marginalized into this as our only source of news .

I go into the bar, that looks to be very busy. Everyone was loud and many men sat at the counter listening to a radio that the New York Yankees game was being played on. People kept coming into the bar and ordering drinks,the sound of the bar kept getting louder and louder,this was the busiest the bar ever seen. Nick and I handed out drinks all day,by the time Nick locked up I could barely

On the morning of september 11, 2001, something happened. People went to work in new york as they regularly did. My job in the world trade center. I arrived in my lambo and crashed into a bush because, I was late for a meeting,because i woke up 20 minutes late.

Have you ever been all the way to the top of the World Trade Center?Well I have and it was amazing!I was pretty scared because I'm afraid of heights,but when I got up to the top I forgot all about being scared.When I was going up in the elevator it showed a amazing virtual view of the buildings around the World Trade Center.

Later that first week, I thought that perhaps stress was getting the better of me. My solution was to go shopping at the mega mall. That should take care of any stress or anxiety—this is what I told myself anyway. But, for the first time in my life, retail therapy did not work. My spirits didn’t lift and I felt sort of gloomy....so I hopped on the bus to