Its 9/11.

I was in Grade 7 at the time I believe when 9/11 happened. It was about an hour before school started my time and I was watching Garfield. The news broadcast interrupted my Garfield program and showed me a plane crashing into a building. The newscasters were saying things like "2 planes have just crashed into the World Trade Centers" and "Dear god it's going down!". I had no idea what was going on until I learned a bit more about it at 6 pm. I didn't even know where the hell the World Trade Center was. I'm a Canadian. It had little impact on my daily activities and it has not affected me in any way but the sequence of events that happened afterwards, namely the Afghanistan War that involves Canadian troops, have had a large impact on the public conscious here. At first I watched every single news story coming out of Afghanistan mainly out of interest in why we were a)in the war, and b)were trying to accomplish being in the war. To this day I try to find information about our troops there but there just isn't the same outrage or focus on the war. On the news cycle I only hear "Canadian troops are putting together an offensive of NATO troops into _____(normally Helman) province" and "another soldier has died today". When a soldier dies I only see the repatriation process along the highway of heroes in Ottawa, the reason why they died and a general overview of their life like "He loved his wife and children and was generally a good soldier". There is no story, there is just tears. There is no reason, so that is why we cry. We never stop crying because we'll never know why it happened. And that to me is what 9/11 is. A crime that will never be justified.