“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” George W. Bush Oct. 8, 2002 Cincinnati, Ohio
Much similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which in and of itself is a day of infamy, September 11, 2001 is a day of infamy that has yet to dwindle down and is referred to quite a lot in order to justify the actions being taken overseas against “terrorists”. It is a day that still strikes fear into the hearts of millions of the United States residents who fear that another attack on a much larger scale could occur at any moment and the threats from Al-Qaeda have been …show more content…
It was a day of utter shock, panic, devastation and fear as the news made its way around the country and world that the United States had been attacked and the Twin Towers had fallen killing nearly 3,000 people. It is the day that on national television while former President George W. Bush read to elementary school children when he received the news and the expression on his face gave way to knowing something horrendous has happened.
Bush and Slotkin’s Myth of the Frontier are essentially two halves to one whole comprehensive story that played out during Bush’s terms in office. In most cowboy westerns the cowboy is typically romanticized or not, tough, illiterate, wears ill-fitting clothes and is unwashed. However, similar to Theodore Roosevelt, Bush is portrayed as the mythical cowboy, one who is strong, intelligent, courageous, the administrator of justice and a similar to a knight in shining armor on …show more content…
(Buzzell 2007, 556) In a ratio, this is 4.02 deaths per thousand people in the Iraq War or 1 in about 250, compared to the average death rate of Americans not in the war, which was 8.42 per thousand in 2003. However, for Buzzell (2007) to make a more convincing argument there was a study of men and women 20-34 both in the army and civilians at home and the results for the males were staggering.
The death rate for males in 2003 were 1.32 per thousand which is 1/3 less than the deaths of males in Iraq. However, the way the deaths are characterized creates a huge difference, in Philadelphia during 2002 the deaths for males were 9% higher than that of the soldiers and their deaths were categorized as homicide whereas the males killed in Iraq were categorized as hostile and non-hostile. (Buzzell 2007, 556) The death rate for troops 17-19 is 4 times higher than the age group of 50+ and women death within the military is extremely lower than their male counterparts because the women were kept away from the killing fields. (Buzzell 2007, 561) In addition to this, the number of those wounded through November of 2006 is 8 times higher than those that had died in the war but the rate in which the wounds were inflicted were consistent with 1 in 31 soldiers. (Buzzell 2007,
Much similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which in and of itself is a day of infamy, September 11, 2001 is a day of infamy that has yet to dwindle down and is referred to quite a lot in order to justify the actions being taken overseas against “terrorists”. It is a day that still strikes fear into the hearts of millions of the United States residents who fear that another attack on a much larger scale could occur at any moment and the threats from Al-Qaeda have been …show more content…
It was a day of utter shock, panic, devastation and fear as the news made its way around the country and world that the United States had been attacked and the Twin Towers had fallen killing nearly 3,000 people. It is the day that on national television while former President George W. Bush read to elementary school children when he received the news and the expression on his face gave way to knowing something horrendous has happened.
Bush and Slotkin’s Myth of the Frontier are essentially two halves to one whole comprehensive story that played out during Bush’s terms in office. In most cowboy westerns the cowboy is typically romanticized or not, tough, illiterate, wears ill-fitting clothes and is unwashed. However, similar to Theodore Roosevelt, Bush is portrayed as the mythical cowboy, one who is strong, intelligent, courageous, the administrator of justice and a similar to a knight in shining armor on …show more content…
(Buzzell 2007, 556) In a ratio, this is 4.02 deaths per thousand people in the Iraq War or 1 in about 250, compared to the average death rate of Americans not in the war, which was 8.42 per thousand in 2003. However, for Buzzell (2007) to make a more convincing argument there was a study of men and women 20-34 both in the army and civilians at home and the results for the males were staggering.
The death rate for males in 2003 were 1.32 per thousand which is 1/3 less than the deaths of males in Iraq. However, the way the deaths are characterized creates a huge difference, in Philadelphia during 2002 the deaths for males were 9% higher than that of the soldiers and their deaths were categorized as homicide whereas the males killed in Iraq were categorized as hostile and non-hostile. (Buzzell 2007, 556) The death rate for troops 17-19 is 4 times higher than the age group of 50+ and women death within the military is extremely lower than their male counterparts because the women were kept away from the killing fields. (Buzzell 2007, 561) In addition to this, the number of those wounded through November of 2006 is 8 times higher than those that had died in the war but the rate in which the wounds were inflicted were consistent with 1 in 31 soldiers. (Buzzell 2007,