Chapter 171 12.9

The plot conjecture of "Winter Sonata" is in full swing. Especially the debate about whether Chen Feng and Mengxue have a kiss scene in the play is a hot topic. The craze lasted until December 9th, followed by a major event that shocked the world. On the morning of December 9, 2001, Eastern time, 19 hijackers took control of four civilian airliners. The four airliners were en route from Boston, Newark and Washington, D.C. (Washington Dulles International Airport) to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 12 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, followed by United Airlines Flight 178 crashing into the South Tower at 9:05 a.m. At 9:36 a.m., another group of hijackers accused American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon. At 10:25 a.m., the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into the U.S. Capitol.

In Chen Feng's memory of his previous life, this terrorist attack should have happened on September 11 this year, but in this life, he actually delayed it for two months, and it didn't happen until December.

Originally, in September, Chen Feng was busy filming and going home to accompany his wife, and almost forgot about the terrorist attack in his memory in his previous life, and he didn't pay special attention to this matter, after all, his biggest focus and task at present is to concentrate on accompanying his wife. Waiting for his own child to be born. And in December, this terrorist attack still happened, which made Chen Feng feel a little sudden and incredible, Chen Feng didn't know whether to gloat at this time, and Messer made a fortune in the United States, or expressed silence for the victims of this terrorist attack, because this time actually caused more than 4,000 deaths, and the original memory of "9.11" was more than 3,000 people, more than 1,000 more than the original, this number is very terrifying. Even though Chen Feng knew that most of these people were Americans, he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart. Of course, Chen Feng hated the US government, especially because of the arrest of the US government for no reason last time, which made Chen Feng even more disgusted with the US government, but there is no doubt that among the more than 4,000 people killed, the vast majority of them were just ordinary taxpayers, and they could not represent the position of the US government. Chen Feng, who had already foreseen that there would be this terrorist attack, completely acquiesced in or ignored his occurrence in advance, without pre-humanitarian considerations to minimize the occurrence of this disaster. When he told him that he had made a profit of more than $150 billion in the U.S. stock market, Chen Feng couldn't help but smirk with Messer, and his originally pessimistic mood immediately became cheerful. If the pain is not in oneself, it will not really feel pain, which is also human nature. I believe that many people, after learning that a terrorist attack had occurred in the United States, felt a little gloating, and this is also the common feeling of the Chinese people.

"9.11" and "12.9" are different, but the specific attack process is strikingly similar to each other, but the latter is much more tragic than the former.

The attack also began at 8:46 a.m. when a Boeing airliner was hijacked shortly after leaving Boston's Logan International Airport and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, which later collapsed. All 120 people on board were killed. At 9:05 a.m., another Boeing plane similarly flew away from Boston's Logan International Airport and was hijacked and crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, which later collapsed. All 96 people on board were killed.

At 9:36 a.m., the same Boeing airliner was hijacked shortly after it left Dulles International Airport and then crashed into a corner of the Pentagon. All 68 people on board were killed.

At 10:25 a.m., a Boeing plane leaving Newark International Airport was hijacked. Fly straight towards Washington, then crash into the U.S. Capitol.

In the "9.11" in Chen Feng's previous life, although the fourth plane was hijacked, it eventually crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside at high speed, and it is speculated that it was the passengers who fought with the hijackers to prevent the plane from crashing into the target. However, in the "12.9" this time, the plane successfully crashed into the intended target -- the US Capitol.

Americans call the Capitol the Capitol and see it as the highest symbol of government owned by the people, ruled by the people, and enjoyed by the people. The Capitol was laid by President Washington himself on September 18, 1793, and is located on the 25-meter-high Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and is the heart of the United States, which was put into use in 1800. In 1814, during the Second American-British War, it was burned by the British, and part of the building was destroyed. Later, the Senate and House of Representatives conference rooms, dome and rotunda were added, and several renovations and expansions were made. It is a three-story building with a total length of 233 meters, made of white marble, and a large three-story dome with a high appearance rate on the central top floor, on which a 6-meter-high bronze statue of Lady Liberty stands. The north and south wings on either side of the dome are home to the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively. The chamber of the House of Representatives is where the President of the United States reads his annual State of the Union address.

The large lawn to the east of the Capitol is where successive presidents have held their inaugurations. Standing on the large lawn, the columned portico under the dome of the Capitol is magnificent, and the three copper "Columbus Doors" in the portico are thick and heavy, and they are carved with reliefs of Columbus discovering the New World, and inside the gate is the rotunda of the Capitol. In the rotunda, you can see a miniature of American politics. The rotunda is flanked by eight oil paintings documenting the history of the United States, while the 55-meter-high dome is a large painting by the 19th-century Italian painter Blenmidi and his students, with the founding president of the United States, Washington, D.C., flanked by the Goddess of Victory and Lady Liberty, and the other 13 goddesses representing the original 13 states of the United States. The outstanding presidential stone sculptures erected in the hall are each of an era. The south side of the rotunda also houses a dedicated statue hall with portraits of celebrities from all 50 states. Together, it is a symbol of American cohesion.

In the end, such a representative building of the United States was completely reduced to ruins under the attack of this passenger plane, and 12 members of Congress were killed and more than 100 members of the Capitol were killed.

During the hijacking, the hijackers used weapons to stab or kill pilots, flight attendants, and passengers. Passengers on board who made contact with the outside world reported that the hijackers had stabbed flight attendants with knives and that at least one passenger had been stabbed in two of the hijackings. Some passengers managed to get in touch with the outside world using cabin phones and cell phones and provided some details about the hijacking. These details include: there were several hijackers on each plane; The hijackers used mace gas or other toxic chemical sprays, such as tear gas or pepper spray; Some of the people on board were stabbed. Both flight attendants and passengers on both planes mentioned that the hijackers had a bomb, but one of the passengers mentioned that he believed the bomb was fake. No traces of the explosion were found at the site of impact, so it was later determined that the bomb might indeed be a forgery.

Three World Trade Center buildings collapsed on the day of the attack due to structural damage. The South Tower (World Trade Center 2) burned for 56 minutes after being hit by United Airlines Flight 175 and collapsed at about 9:59 a.m. The North Tower (World Trade Center Phase 1) collapsed at 10:58 a.m. after burning for about 102 minutes. At the time of its collapse, debris damaged the nearby Seven World Trade Center (WTC 7). The structural integrity of Building 7 was further eroded by the fire and finally collapsed at 5:20 p.m. that day. The attack filled the skies over Manhattan with smoke and smoke.

8:46 a.m.-10:29 a.m.: At least 20 people (mostly in the North Building) trapped on the top floor of the building by fire and smoke jumped from a height. There is evidence that a large area in the middle of the north building collapsed immediately after the attack, perhaps to make the people jump to survive thinking that the building was about to collapse. A firefighter on the ground floor was stoned to death by a jumper who fell from the sky. The smoke and updrafts were too strong for air rescue operations, and New York City itself lacked helicopters dedicated to air rescue.

The Pentagon suffered local destruction, part of the structure collapsed. The part that was attacked had just been refurbished and was not yet fully operational, but it still killed more than 100 people in the west wing of the Pentagon; The Capitol is almost suspected to be flat, leaving a trail of ruins.

The attack caused chaos in news organizations and air traffic control across the United States. All private international flights are prohibited from landing in the United States for 3 days. In-flight flights either return or connect to Canada or Mexico. The United States closed its airspace to prohibit any civil airliners from taking off, and all incoming flights must immediately land at the nearest airport. After that, the FAA announced that the no-fly order would last until at least the afternoon of December 12. The no-fly ban eventually lasted until 14 December, during which time only military and rescue aircraft were allowed to take off. This is the fourth time in U.S. history that all commercial flights in the U.S. have been halted, and the only unplanned emergency measure. Prior to this, all aircraft were grounded due to national defense needs.

Throughout the day, unconfirmed and contradictory news reports flooded the media. One of the most widely disseminated "news" was the explosion of a car bomb at the US State Department in Washington, D.C.

The attack on three important buildings in the United States, especially the U.S. Capitol, is undoubtedly a huge blow to all Americans. It's like a man who suffered a fatal blow in the dark, and he was so painful that he couldn't speak for a long time, and he didn't know who did it at first, and his pain, anger, shame, and hatred ...... And so on, there are all negative feelings. Before that, the continental continent of the United States has not suffered such a severe terrorist attack since the founding of the country, and its impact is comparable to the US attack on Pearl Harbor during the Pacific War in 1945, and 1945 is really a little far away from the current 2001, and the American society from top to bottom did not expect such a thing to happen, which can be seen from the dementia reaction and ultra-slow response speed of US President George W. Bush after hearing about this incident.

On the morning of 9/11, President George W. Bush was posing at a children's education center for video. The footage shows no surprise on his face when he was told that the second plane had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A timer in the corner of the video shows that as the minutes ticked by, Bush was still reading "My Pet Goat" to his children, and he didn't seem to know what to do next if it wasn't for his advisers telling him.

This footage was shown in the famous documentary Fahrenheit 911, directed by Mike Murphy. Moore even questioned in the film: "Did Bush think at the time that he should have paid attention to the several attack predictions that the CIA had provided to him a month earlier?" He had long been told that 'al-Qaeda planned to use aircraft to carry out attacks in the United States.' Was he scared silly at the time? ”

It's a pity that the history of this time and space has deviated from Chen Feng's memory. Will Moore continue to make such a documentary about President Bush?

Nearly 12 hours after the September 11 terrorist attacks, at 8:30 p.m., US President George W. Bush made a televised speech to the nation at the White House.

The speed with which a head of state reacts is really extraordinary.

And in this life, when the terrorist attack occurred, President Bush was on vacation. According to director Mike. According to Moore, from the time Bush became president to the September 11 incident, 42 percent of the eight months that President Bush spent on vacation.

However, this lifetime President Bush reacted much faster, and immediately after the terrorist attacks, he ended his vacation and then delivered a televised address to the nation at the White House at half past six o'clock in the afternoon of Eastern Time. And his speech on TV is almost the same as Chen Feng's memory of the speech after the "9/11" incident.

In his speech, he said, "A terrorist attack can shake the foundations of our largest building, but it cannot touch the foundations of the United States." These acts of terror have destroyed steel, but they have not weakened America's steely resolve. ”

His remarks. This greatly stimulated the patriotic enthusiasm of the Americans, and also caused his popular support rate to reach the peak of his eight-year term, reaching 89.58 percent.

When the results of the 2000 US presidential election were announced last year, Bush received fewer popular votes than Gore, and the electoral vote was only one more than Gore's. Public opinion in the United States and at home and abroad unanimously believe that Bush is a rare weak president in US history. Compared with that time, one is in the sky and the other is underground. The "9 December" incident made Bush leap from a "weak president" to a "strong president."

At 7 o'clock in the evening, US President Bush met with all members of the National Security Council, and half an hour later met with senior advisers. Bush and his colleagues decided that Ben. Osama bin Laden was behind the incident.

After the incident, in order to win the support and sympathy of all countries in the world, form an international anti-terrorism coalition, and completely destroy the "Al Qaeda," Bush Jr. held telephone calls with Russian President Putin, French President Jacques Chirac, Chinese President, and leaders of Germany and Canada on the same day.

On 12 December, the United Nations issued a resolution condemning "those who provide protection, support and shelter to the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these terrorist acts" and authorizing the necessary measures to respond to terrorist acts.

The people of the world expressed great sympathy for the great sacrifices and losses suffered by the American people in the December 9 incident, and the French left-wing newspaper Le Monde declared: "We are all Americans. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed his willingness to provide the United States with one-on-one support and unlimited solidarity. Korean elementary school students perform prayers outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. Of course, it is debatable whether their practice is widely representative, especially the fact that thousands of Iranian people held candles to hold a vigil for the Americans killed in the "9/11 incident", which made some people who care about international facts feel that this matter is very ironic, and those who don't know still think that the Iranian people love the United States and how good the relationship between the two countries is. Those who knew it must have thought they were organizing a show, or even celebrating, even though they lit candles.

There is no doubt, however, that the adverse effects of the previous unilateral policy pursued by the Bush administration have disappeared, and the United States has won the support and sympathy of most countries in its fight against terrorism.

Another interesting phenomenon is that after the incident, the civil support of Western governments increased significantly. In many parts of the world, many media outlets have published opinion pieces arguing that the events were staged by Israelis, Jews, Zionists and even the Americans themselves in order to provoke global Arab-phobia. Other Arab Muslims believe that al-Qaeda was responsible for the incident in retaliation for U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The incident was unanimously condemned by the international community, and the leaders of some countries that have traditionally adopted a policy that is not very friendly to the United States, such as Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Palestinian Fatah leader Yasser Arafat, Iranian President Khatami, and the then chairman of the Cuban People's Party, Fidel. Both Castro and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan publicly condemned the incident and expressed sympathy for the American people. The only exception is former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Hussein, he commented that the incident was the consequence of US hegemonism, so he was later retaliated against by the United States, and it cannot but be said that the reason why the United States launched the Iraq War also has a lot to do with Saddam, the first person. Bush Sr. launched the first Iraq War and defeated Saddam, but Saddam Hussein was still alive and well in the end, so Bush Jr. launched the second Iraq War, adhering to his father's wishes, and finally completely knocked Saddam Hussein down and sent him to the gallows.

The economic impact of this terrorist attack was even greater, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 15.26% on the first day of trading. Among them, the worst decliners were in travel, insurance and airline stocks. Gasoline prices in the United States have also fallen sharply. By this time, the U.S. economy had slowed down, and the 12.9 incident deepened the depression in the global economy.

At the end of December, two surveys released by the Gallup polling company showed that Bush had a support rating of nearly 90 percent for leading the US war against terrorism, surpassing Roosevelt during World War II. With 39 percent of the vote, Bush was elected the "Most Admired Male in Americans" in 2001, surpassing John F. Kennedy, the idol of Americans.

After 9 December, the biggest change in US internal affairs was the unprecedented unanimity of the Republican and Democratic parties on the issue of counter-terrorism. Bush's speech to Congress won warm applause from congressmen from both parties. The "New York Times" even said that the United States is ruled by the "Gang of Five" formed by the four leaders of Bush and the Republican Democratic Party in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The five of them hold an in-house breakfast meeting at the White House every Tuesday and Friday to make all sorts of important decisions. This is also something that has never happened before in the history of the United States.

Before using force against Afghanistan, the United States intensively engaged in diplomatic activities under the pretext of establishing a "global anti-terrorist coalition," and the French president and the British prime minister visited the United States one after another. In total, Bush and Powell had telephone conversations with heads of state and foreign ministers of more than 60 countries, hoping that these countries would support US military action. Powell and Rumsfeld also shuttled to visit relevant countries on several occasions. In particular, during his attendance at the APEC summit in Shanghai, Bush also called for international counter-terrorism to be included in the agenda. This is also unprecedented.

It is precisely with the support of all countries in the world that the United States has launched this "war against terrorism" in the new century. Bush stressed that this war is "not only a war for the United States" but also a "war for the world," and that the United States regards itself as the "main force in counter-terrorism" and that it is the only one in the world capable of launching and conducting a global war against terrorism. Bush claimed that whoever is either on the side of the United States or on the side of the terrorists "will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." The United States demands that all countries in the world take sides around the anti-terrorist war and decide whether a country is a friend or foe with its attitude toward the United States.

After the December 9 incident, the United States launched a large-scale military retaliation against Afghanistan. Do you remember that 20 years ago, the Soviet army also entered Afghanistan in a big way, and the international public opinion at that time unanimously called it "the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan". Now that the United States is fighting terrorism, the U.S. military has also entered Afghanistan in a big way and changed the regime in the country, which is more than the level of the Gulf War. However, none of the mainstream international public opinion called it an "invasion". This phenomenon is enough to illustrate the strong and hegemonic position of the United States in the world.

With the United States making progress in the war in Afghanistan, Bush said that the US military could launch an attack outside Afghanistan. Ten leaders of the US Congress even called on Bush to list Iraq as the target of the next round of the US war on terror. The U.S. Army, Army and Air Force have moved toward Somalia, and Sudan, Yemen, and even the Philippines and Indonesia could be targets for U.S. counterterrorism.

Many people think that the possibility of the US military in Iraq is half to half, but Chen Feng knows that this is 100% possible. In the history of previous lives, on March 20, 2003, the United States openly and unilaterally decided to launch a large-scale military strike against Iraq, bypassing the United Nations Security Council, under the pretext that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and covertly supporting terrorism.

And the final result was that Iraqi President Saddam's family was wiped out, and he himself was hanged in humiliation, but in the end, the US military did not find any "weapons of mass destruction, and there was no evidence of covert support for terrorism, it can be said that Saddam Hussein was completely unjustly killed, and the consequence of this was that Iraq really became a terrorist state, and there were car bombs at both ends a day, with heavy casualties, and suddenly the Iraqi people, who were originally quite rich, returned to the pre-liberation period overnight. It has become one of the economically backward countries in the world.

At a time when President Bush was holding the power of the three US armed forces, sharpening his knives and being in high spirits, the good times did not last long, and two months later, negative news came out, and the New York Times revealed that President Bush had been warned by bin Laden's followers of the intention to hijack the plane one after another before the 911 incident, but he did not take corresponding measures. This not only dealt a blow to his resolute and tough image, but also called into question his ability to govern again......

The US "Washington Post" reported: US President George W. Bush, whose popularity soared as a result of the "9 December" incident, was revealed to have learned before the incident that bin Laden's followers intended to hijack a US plane, thus damaging his prestige and ruining his image as a resolute and capable wartime president at any time, or even implicating him in weakening Washington's credibility.

US Senate Majority Leader Daschler, House Minority Leader Gerphardt, and Senate Select Committee Vice Chairman Shelby were the first to launch an investigation into the fact that Bush had been warned about the possible hijacking of a US Airlines plane by terrorists a month before the "9 December" incident.

Daschler, who is from the Democratic Party, said that he was deeply concerned about the fact that the White House had been warned about the hijacking and asked Bush to report to Congress the content of the information he had received at that time. He said that before drawing conclusions on this matter, it is necessary to first answer a number of important questions: First, why did the White House make this announcement eight months after the "December 9" incident? Second, did the White House take the necessary action after receiving the security warning?

House Minority Leader Gephardt held a hearing to investigate what President Bush and other officials were aware of, when they received the warning, and how the administration handled it.

Republican Senator Shelby also said in an interview with the media that before the "12.9" terrorist attack, the US government had obtained a lot of information. He believes that if this information had been properly handled, the situation with "12.9" could have been completely different. Shelby also questioned the fact that the White House did not admit until 15 May that Bush had received a warning about the hijacking in advance, holding that the Bush administration had failed to properly handle this warning. However, some Republican congressmen accused Democratic congressmen of taking advantage of the incident to carry out political struggles in an attempt to drag down Bush's popularity.

Bush has tried his best to avoid openly discussing the relevant issues, while his deputies have tried their best to calm down the controversy. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice have all come forward to defend Bush and do their best to avoid creating the impression of deliberately concealing it and avoiding appearing too guarded. White House advisers have tried in every possible way to make excuses for President Bush's weight loss, and have vigorously denied Bush's claim that he has lost weight because of the "9 December" incident and the war in Afghanistan. The White House unanimously explained that none of the qiē had changed, and neither had the president's weight. White House Chief of Staff Kad even said that Bush's weight has not changed, but that his fat and thin areas are different from those in the past, and that "he is just redistributing his weight." These statements obviously give people a feeling of wanting to cover up.

Although Bush has become a "strong president," for Bush, "everything is leisurely, and re-election is the only great thing." If he is not re-elected in 2004, he will still be a "weak president". Bush is most afraid of following the mistakes of his old father. Like his father, he commanded a great battle during his tenure and won both of them. After the Gulf War that year, Bush Sr.'s reputation was on the rise. Just because he couldn't get up financially, he lost the election to the little-known Arkansas kid Clinton. This has become a deep hatred of the Bush family. Therefore, what Bush is talking about is counter-terrorism, and what he is thinking about is the economy, and he is thinking about the general election in two years.

As for President Bush, Chen Feng, like most Chinese people, naturally has no good impression of him. Seeing that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are arguing endlessly in the United States because of this incident, I feel a little sigh for American democracy in my heart. Sometimes, too democracy becomes a mutual bargain, and even shrews scold the street, such democracy seems to be very rare in China, as for whether the democracy in the United States is good or not, that is, the wise see the wise and the benevolent see the benevolent.

After the "12.9" terrorist attack, Chen Feng immediately entrusted his agent Chen Keying, and asked her to publicly publish a letter of condolence drafted by him to the media, expressing condolences and regret to the families of the deceased in the disaster, and making a one-time donation of 20 million US dollars, relying on the Dragon Fund, to set up a special support fund to donate to the families of the victims.

He is the first artist in the world to stand up and express condolences to the families of the victims of the "12.9" attacks, and naturally he is also the first artist to donate the largest number of individual donations. His philanthropic attitude naturally won the heartfelt admiration of all Americans.

Subsequently, Chen Feng asked Chen Keying to rush directly to the United States to be fully responsible for the proper distribution of the $20 million donation.

Under Chen Feng's leadership, all Americans almost immediately took action to donate money and materials to the victims of the terrorist disaster and their families, and the American Red Cross set up a special "Freedom Fund" to accept donations. However, the New York Times reported that the flow of these donations was marked by a clear pattern of favoritism: When police, firefighters and other uniformed workers were killed, their families received far more donations than the families of civilians killed.

Among those killed at the World Trade Center building in New York were about 400 police officers, firefighters and other uniformed workers who rushed to the dangerous scene. Statistics show that the number of donations their families have received since 9 December is simply jaw-dropping. According to a survey by the New York Times, as of New Year's Day 2002, at least 50 charities in the United States dedicated to receiving donations for the families of rescue workers who died in the line of duty had raised $386 million. This equates to about $880,000 for each family member of the rescue worker who died. As such contributions are still increasing, it is conservatively estimated that the families of those who died in the line of duty received at least $1 million from charities alone.

There's a reason why so many donations have been made, and New York City firefighters rushed into the fire immediately after the attack on the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The fire brigade set up a temporary command center in the lobby on the first floor of the World Trade Center, and firefighters climbed the stairs to rescue, and the New York City Fire Brigade dispatched a total of 200 units to participate in the rescue. Many firefighters immediately launched rescue operations without reporting to the command center. Due to a radio communication failure, many of the team members who rushed into the fire could not receive the evacuation order on time, and when the building collapsed, 343 firefighters died in the fire. After the destruction of the radio communication base station on the roof platform of the World Trade Center and the communication exchange equipment in the building, public communication throughout the Manhattan area was cut off, and the city was thrown into chaos. The firefighters worked in shifts 24 hours a day, and the number of victims was as high as 300 people, which can be said to have set a world Guinness record.

New York City police helicopters arrived at the scene soon after the incident and kept up to date on the situation. Many New York City police officers, New York Port police officers, and New Jersey state police officers were buried after the building collapsed. The New York police were in 12-hour shifts to rescue, and there were not a few sacrifices.

Therefore, it is natural that these dead public officials received such a large donation.

However, for the families of ordinary people who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, not only can they not count how many donations they can receive, but many of them also participate in fundraising activities for the families of those who died. In addition, some family members of ordinary people who were killed asserted that they were neglected in other ways, such as tickets to free concerts, free vacation programs, and even free seats at the planned Christmas tree lighting event at Rockefeller Center.

Some philanthropists and government officials have reminded that donations should be distributed with a focus on fairness to avoid estrangement and even contradictions among the living, which in turn will affect the spirit of national solidarity in the face of disasters.

But then again, the United States has long had a practice of giving generous pensions to the families of police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty. New York State provides that wives of police officers and firefighters who die in the line of duty receive the wages their husbands receive from the time they die until their regular retirement, and their children receive full scholarships to attend state colleges. In addition, the federal government provides $250,000 in pensions to the families of every police officer, firefighter and other emergency aid worker who died in the line of duty. In contrast, the agencies that collect donations for the families of those killed are scattered across the states, and the lack of coalitions and organizations certainly makes the collection much smaller. To this end, the wife of a manager of a securities company who was killed initiated the formation of a non-profit organization called "12.9 Family Limited", with 11 members of the board of directors from six states, but none of them represented the victims in uniform.

In fact, even the families of those who died in the 9/11 attacks receive unfair donations. For the families of the same firefighters who were killed, the donations they received would not be the same, due to luck and location.

In the "12.9" incident, almost every fire company in New York City had people sacrificed, but how many donations can be raised depends on how many people the company sacrificed, how big it is, how close it is to the community, and how prosperous the community is. The Chelsea community in Manhattan raised $250,000 for five firefighters who died, with the furthest donation coming from Ireland. Another fire company in the heart of Manhattan lost a dozen firefighters and raised only $400,000. Because of such strict inequalities, some fire companies have begun to refuse to disclose the amount of donations they have received. Although the federal government's charity law will eventually require them to make their accounts public, at the moment, they don't want to be "red-eyed".

In a certain way, asking others to donate to you depends on your own ability.

After Chen Feng learned of this situation, in order to cause unnecessary trouble, he immediately told Hongye to treat everyone equally, as long as it was the family of the victims, 5,000 US dollars would be given to each victim, that is, the average number of 4,000 victims. In fact, his approach is also very unfair, and he can't really help those in need, because for the families of public officials who have received a million dollars in pensions, it will not be of much use for you to give him another $5,000, but for those families of victims who are really in need and have difficult family circumstances, if you give him more donations, you will naturally be able to help them more.

Chen Feng doesn't understand this truth, but in order to avoid some people from "promoting rice and fighting rice hatred", so that the equal distribution of donations is naturally the best result. Besides, the reason why he donated 20 million US dollars, and he donated it to the Americans, is because he made hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States because of the terrorist attack in the United States this time. Second, this terrorist attack is really tragic, everyone has compassion, and if they want to donate, they will naturally donate if they have money; Third, it is naturally the purpose of the show, as a public figure who has attracted worldwide attention, Chen Feng naturally cherishes his feathers, so spending 20 million US dollars to buy a good reputation is also a very normal public welfare consumption behavior.