Narrative On Terrorism
There have been occurrences of some major natural disasters over the recent times, this have had great impact on families and lives of many people. The event that has had a great impact to me is the recent occurrence of the September 11 terrorist attacks. These events made headlines in media all over the world in newspapers as well as television got an in depth detail of the occurrence that had a great impact on me ,I failed to understand how terrorists could be so evil to an extent of planning to attack innocent citizens.
This were a series of f our suicide attacks that were coordinated upon the United states in the New York city and Washington DC.terrorists hijacked passenger jets, and intentionally flew two of them into the North and south towers of the World Trade complex in the New York leaving behind two collapsed towers in a matter of two hours can only imagine the distress and panic those innocent passengers were feeling when the hijackers took control of the planes. The collapsing of the towers was just but the beginning; the debris from this collapsing building fell onto other surrounding buildings and even initiated fires in those buildings. This resulted to collapse either partially or completely of this surrounding buildings in the complex. The debris also caused damage to ten other large structures in the immediate area. The third hijacked jet was intentionally crashed into the pentagon; however in the fourth jet the passengers made attempts to take control of the jet from the hijackers though it proved difficult and they ended up crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. This attack had a very big impact to the economy as well as the lives of citizens in America. Many people died from these attacks and many people were left in great trauma after the attack.
I can only imagine what was running thorough the minds of the passengers and crew members as they made attempts to make phone calls from the aircraft using the air phone service and mobile phones when they were attempting to provide details of there being hijackers aboard in the planes. The people on board had endured tear gas; pepper spray and other were even stabbed to death. This was a very bad situation to be in to see flight attendants, pilots and even fellow passengers being killed by the hijackers at the watch of others. It was also very devastating for the people in the buildings that the planes crashed into or other nearby structures as they were caught unawares. They made frantic attempts to save their lives from the fires and most of them died from jumping or falling from this building as they landed on the streets and roof tops of buildings that were hundreds of feet below. Other attempted to go to roofs of those building with the hope that they would be rescued by helicopters though their efforts did not bear nay fruit as the roof access roads were locked.
All this details were all over the media and really impacted me. Could only but try and put myself in the situation and try to imagine what this people felt at that point. They saw they were facing their death and they could do absolutely nothing about it. This made me think about taking a course in disaster management and counseling. With the relevant knowledge on how to treat people in disaster situations then I will be in a position to handle victims incase any disaster occurs and now how I would counsel the people in such situations. Victims in disasters should be handled with great care since they are traumatized hence the special care. Therefore with my knowledge from disaster management and counseling without no doubt will be of great importance to me as I try to help those victims as I have been really touched from the occurrence of disasters through time.
