Wednesday, September 14th

[3Marielle]

watched more of the Bush video and answered some of these questions:1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?-in a reading session with children at Emma E. Booker Elementary School2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis?-To stay calm and show a sense of control....if the leader isn't calm, then it's most likely that a lot of other people won't be calm either.3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away?-D.C. was under another possible terrorist threat after the Pentagon was hit.4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur?-They closed down all airports and they made the order to land all commercial and other planes, and if there were any planes that did not respond to the order, they would have to have fighter planes shoot them down.5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha?-It is and was a well protected, heartland, safe base for the president to stay in until it was known for it to be safe for Bush.6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service?-He didn't want to be giving a speech to America in a military bunker, and he didn't want to give the enemy the satisfaction that he was cowering away...he wanted to give the speech in the Oval Office.7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?-To thank everyone who was helping clean up Ground Zero, but most of it was saying that we were going to bring the people that caused all of it to justice; a declaration of war without right-out saying that it was.8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing there job?-It does no good to look back at what could have been prevented. It happened, so they might as well fix everything that needs it.9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?-He congratulated Obama, and had a great sense of happiness, gratitude, and relief that justice had been done.Talked about how we can boost our grade (if it needs improving) like improving assigned blog quality and remembering to do the forum posts.Talked about topics and chapters in the textbooks, and we will get into groups to do a project on them.