Early in the moring on September 11, 2001 there was a series of suicide attacks on the United States which is coordinated by al-Qaeda. There was 19 terrorists who hijacked four comercial airlines. Two, as you know, crashed into the World Trade Center or Twin Towers, killing 2752, 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority. Another crashed into the Pentagon, killing 184 and one landed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. None of the terrorists survived.
There were 3000 victims and of course the terrorists. There were so many people who were there at the World Trade Center watching the two hour ordeal that accually seemed like it took all day...at least what i remember of it it seemed to me it took a long time...but anyway so many people who were there or near the Towers suffered smoke inhilation. Unfortunatly many of the casualites were civilians and others from over 70 different countries. When the Towers fell it destroyed and damaged many of the surrounding bulidings.
The US's main reaction was the War on Terror. Where we invaded Afghanistan and took the Taliban out of power and killed Saddam Hussain. Other countries were also shaken by the terrorist attacks. They strengthened their legislation on anit-terriorism and expanded their law enforcment powers. After the attack many coorperations closed for the whole week mainly because they were all afraid their building would be attacked. By closing the buildings and the Attack Lower Manhatten suffered from alot of income loss. The airline companies took a very hard hit because everyone, once again, was afraid their plane would be hijacked.
Now 9 years later, we have many memorials for those who lost thier lives in 9-11 and we have finally pulled troops out of the war. There has been alot of rebuilding and their planning on rebuilding the Towers and make them the tallest towers in the world.
i think that it is a good thing that there are so many memorials to remember those who died during the attacks. i think they deserve that, its only fair, there were so many brave men and women who died for others they deserve this.
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