..The day of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers crashed four planes. Two hit the twin towers. One hit the Pentagon. The last one was meant to hit either the Capitol or the White House, but the people onboard took down the hijackers and the plane ended up in a field in Philedelphia. It was a group called al Qaeda that hijacked the planes. Those people are sick.
..There was more then 3,000 deaths. Most were civilians in and around the buildings that day. Other deaths included around 350 firefighters, 60 police officers, and all the hijackers and the innocent people on the planes. There was a ton of dust and ashes in the air that made it hard to breathe. One person died of lung disease linked to the 911 attacks. The amount of innocent people that were killed on 9-11-01 angered and outraged the U.S.
..We knew right away that Iraq had something to do with it. We planned on stopping the al Qaeda and retaliating. We attacked Baghdad, Iraq's capital, as one of our early attacks. During the war, many things have happened. Series of attacks and car side bombings have killed both theirs and out soldiers. It is said that over 100,000 people have died altogether. Thats a bad thought, considering a lot of them are innocent people killed in bombings and other attacks. We captured their president, Suddam Hussein, and put him to death by hanging. The war is still going on. Obama is trying to get out troops out. We've basically just been helping them stay civil for the last year or so. Some troops have left. 50,000 remain there.
..I dont remember much from 911. I just know that when i asked mom about it, she said she watched TV all night becuase it was all over the news. She said that she thought it would negatively affect me because of the violence and seeing people on TV talking about losing their loved ones.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqWhereThingsStand/story?id=2961278&page=1
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm
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