Many people believed, when they were watching on the television the planes crashing on the World Trade Center, that they were in front of a tragical movie. They could not believe that all of that was truly happening; that the major and most powerful country in the world was being challenged by islamic terrorists; neither that comercial planes were to be used as missiles to destroy important symbols of the north american culture… I looked up on the dictionary for the meaning of the word "Tragedy". I have found explanations that certainly are apropriate to describe what happened on that September 2001. Even though, the meaning of the word was related to Ancient Greece's theather, it is still, a good way to refer to what happened in New York and Washington. Why? Because everything seemed huge, dramatic and sad on that day. It was just like a tragical scene, capable of causing terror and mercy, in which "anonimous" and famous people were acting in a heroic way to fight against "fatal happenings". "Misfortune" doesn't seem to me as the right word to talk about the collapse of the twin towers. The buildings don't represent the whole tragedy, just a part of it. The dramas lived by the families are the major loss, the deepest sorrow. The death in heroic conditions of more than three hundred firefighters is more meaningful than any material icon of a culture or a country. I was giving classes when the hijackings of the airplanes occurred. A little later, the attacks to the towers and to the Pentagon. In the break time, through their "walkmans", students heard the news from radio stations. In the teacher's room, the school principals told us that an "accident" or even an attempt had happened. What scared me the most was the attack to the Pentagon, basis of the military command of the United States. It was a daring action from my point of view. We couldn't even suspect that everything that was happening was a result of plans made by Ossama Bin Laden and realized by the Al Qaeda followers. After some time, there is still the suffering, the pain and the apprehension in the United States (and in his allies). The rule stablished by Hamurabi on his Code (made before the Christian period) was recovered to sustain the military actions of the Americans and English armies against Afeghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Other countries such as Libia and North Korea were distinguished as enemies of democracy and are a part of the "Evil Axis".

Where else can we get?