For Whitney Ashworth, an ETSU student, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were nothing less than a complete shock and revelation of the evil in the world.
Ashworth received the news of the event when a friend called and told her to turn on the television.
“The first thing I did was just lay my head down and think, `Oh God, it’s World War III,'” she said.
The United States, she said, should retaliate in a “violent but productive way.”
As for innocent bystanders being killed in the event of military retaliation, Ashworth believes the armed forces should not be worried about that, but do whatever is necessary to protect the rights that we have as Americans.
“Everyone in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that were killed was innocent and they weren’t worried about it, so why should we?”
As a result of the attacks, many changes will take place in America.
Ashworth sees economic recession in the future of the United States, but the saddest thing of all, she said, is, “There will be a lot of hard feelings, prejudices and mistrust toward people of Arabic descent.

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