today we are having a blog discussion over out assigned blog that was over the topic of 9/11
we also recieved our assigned blog for this week which is our family history.
Al-Qaeada- terrorist organization.
1st tower.
-hit at 8:46 and trapped everyone above 78th floor
-second one hit at 9:03 and cameras caught most of it
-fifteen minutes later 2nd tower collapsed, half hour after that the 1st collapsed
25 other total buildings damaged
over 90 different countries had people in the world trade center
almost 3000 people died
there is still a church there and two steel beams from the towers were welded togethere to make a cross
freedom tower to be made near ground zero
pentagon
-plan flown into at 9:37
-damaged but repaired
-first time in US history that there was no air traffic
airport security got extremely tight
NAIL CLIPPERS NOT ALLOWED
threat level was raised
we went to war against afganistan not iraq
afganistan
--terrorist groups were based there
--talliban was there government- radical islamic power group that came into power in the 90's
--made women second clase people
established a new cabinet called homeland security
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