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When I was creating this page I was trying to focus on my first paper in American literature while trying to blend in some of the works we had read during the semester. The poem at the bottom of the screen is from a website that is dedicated to posting up poems made by individuals about 9/11. I thought that it had reflected the words at the time, the words, "we will never forget" was a statement that at the time meant that we would never forget the lives lost in the two towers. Now it means that and more. It has spread across to the troops that are in the war and also the vulnerability of our nation. Fear has manipulated our decision making by convincing many of the public to over exaggerate the truth or lies. During 9/11 we blamed Afghanistan for the attack, and then Al Qaeda, and the Taliban, but we eventually ended up in Iraq on the notion of weapons of mass destruction. As a result we entered a multi-trillion dollar war and have yet to see the end of it. Fear takes away our power to make rational and educated decisions. There is no judgment when people are under the fog of fear.