World Trade Center

I saw the movie "World Trade Center" over the weekend. When the movie was starting to be advertised through the news media and over the internet, I was a little pissed off. I was mad that someone was making a movie to profit off such tragic part of American history. Well that changed once I seen the movie...

I have to say there wasn't a dry eye in the movie theater, even I was a little choked up. It was tastefully done, seeing it in the theater it was easy to feel like you were right there when it all went down. Because I have child now it was easy for me to sympathize what the two men trapped in the towers after the collapse were thinking about. I mean I couldn't imagine my daughter growing up without a mom or dad. They were torn between protecting themselves from harm and their jobs of protecting the public.

A lot of families are now with out a mother or father and some without both, all because a religious movement doesn't agree with American politics or ideologies. I guess its not really an American problem anymore, they (extremist Muslim) want to hurt anyone that is part of a democratic society that is different then theirs. Its a shame.

Not only did that event cause the deaths of many people, it also changed the way that people perceive their fellow man. People now profile everyday their life now. Making sure that they aren't sitting next to a person that they perceive to be Muslim on a plane, on a bus or on a train. They are watching to see who is moving into their neighborhoods and who is playing with their kids. Its a perpetual cycle that will not be broke now or in the future, unless we as parents teach our kids to be tolerable to other cultures. Its not unlike the American history with black slaves there is still a great deal racism that goes on; only because there is a great deal of adults that pass that racism onto their children.

Do I feel that the offending parties of the tragedy should be punished? Yes, I think they should but I don't think that Muslims in general should be punished. We can't allow the government or anyone else start profiling or taking away the basic freedoms that are in the constitution that Americans in the past fought for. If that happens then the people that orchestrated 9/11 have won more then they could ever imagine, we have let the fear created in aftermath dictate the future. Of course that is just my opinion.