This Is Really Not The Best Comparison In This Situation.

I've seen it all over various Star Wars fan pages on Facebook and on YouTube; videos, comic strips, and fan art all about a Storm-trooper's point of view of the destruction of the first Death Star from A New Hope.  While it is interesting to see events from another point of view, many fans treat it as though they were speaking of the 9/11 attacks from 2001.  This is not a very good comparison given the situation we're talking about.
     The problem is that these fans are comparing the destruction of a battle station meant for terror purposes to an unprovoked attack on helpless civilians.  Yes millions of people got killed in the Death Star explosion, but the Rebels had no other choice.  This Death Star had proven just how dangerous it was when it destroyed an entire planet full of billions more innocent civilians.  And Darth Sidious could have used it to destroy hundreds more planets and billions more people unless someone put a stop to it.          
      The attack on the Twin Towers in New York City was an unexpected surprise attack meant to terrify a whole country.  It was done by fanatics who wanted to kill people for an evil cause.  The ones who hijacked the planes believed that dying for their religion and sending as many infidels to Hell as they could meant that they would live forever in Paradise.  This not at all like the Rebels from Star Wars who are trying to overthrow a tyrannical regime that has enslaved and butchered so many people.  This is a culture of death that values mass murder as means of furthering their cause.  

 To be quite frank, I think that the destruction of Alderaan would been a better comparison in this case.  It was an unprovoked attack on an entire population with the means of demonstrating what would happen to anyone who didn't like the Empire.  I do want to see stories written from an average storm-trooper's point of view, but not in a "Where were you on September 11th?" kind of way.  Actually, it's a very inappropriate comparison as it's trying to compare a necessary attack on a battle station that obviously represented the strong arm of the law in its most extreme form, and a vicious and horrendous attack on a civilian population.   

Also for the record, the Storm-troopers would have known full well that the Death Star was a military space station, and the Rebels would probably try to take it out.  No one ever anticipated that someone would try to take out a civilian skyscraper like the Twin Towers.