Jeff McCumbry
History 211
Prof. Schrueber

9/11: The New 4th of July

When people ask you to name a date that jumps out as important, what do they think of? 10/15/67? 5/28/91? 3/13/13? Probably not.  The most important date in the history of America (aside from 1/1/1 when Jesus was born) is 9/11.  This paper will discuss how that date is wicked symbolic.

First, not many people notice that 9/11 the day terrorist's attacked the World Trade Center is also the same numbers you call for emergency (911).  A huge symbolism is that in my opinion many people probably did call 911 on 9/11 saying that terrorist's, were attacking.  That is really weird if you think about it.

Whats more symbolic is that the 2 ones in 911 (the date not the phone number) could be replaced with the actual picture of the Twin Towers (or "World Trade Center") because the two towers are long and the same size (accept one had like a pole sticking out of it) and they look like the number 1.  This is not something I made up, theres a lot of stickers on cars that show this.  But what is my own idea is that its really weird that the terrorist's chose to attach on a date that looks like the buildings they exploded. 

Finally, the final reason that 9/11 is an extremely symbolic date is if you add 9+1+1 you get 11, which is what the Twin Towers look like standing side, by, side (see previous paragraph for more).  There are no stickers showing this but there should be, and I could probably make a lot of money if I gave this idea to stores but I'm an American and would not want to make money from this idea because its a fact that the money would go to the terrorist's.

America was founded by the four fathers who believed that America was the land of the brave.  We are all brave and the terrorist's were cowards (well they were brave to kill themselfs by flying plains into buildings but thats not American to believe so their just cowards).  But the four fathers (Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln) could of never predicted that there would be such a symbolic date of when America would almost meet it's maker.  Therefore, the new fourth of July should be the eleventh of September.  (Accept instead of fireworks there should probably be just sparklers especially in New York City.)