On September 11 2001, Al Queda (middle eastern Terroist group) performed four quadenated terroist attacks on not just Americas goverment but America itself. On the early morning of September 11, at 8:46 AM five hijackers crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the The World Trade Centers North Tower. Soon after at 9:03 AM five more hijackers crashed United Airlines flight 175 into the South Tower. Just over a half an hour after that five more hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The fourth and final airlplane was United Airlines flight 93 crashed down near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. After investigations officials found out the the passenger on Flight 93 took back over the plane that was controlled by four hijackers. Unfortunately the passengers on flight 93 could not land the plane succesfully and still crashed. There was no survivers so nobody really knows where Flight 93 was expected to hit. Once the passengers heard word of the other three attacks they realized they needed to think fast and do something. Some people think the flight was expected to hit the White House in Washington D.C. Or even some other monument or important figure in the American Goverment. There was a total number of 2,977 deaths in result of the attacks.
The terrorist attacks were by a group named Al-Quda. Al Queda is lead by a horrible horrible man named Osama bin Laden. In 2011 his compond was found and he was killed. American Goverment beileves the motives of this suicid attack on America was part of a "Holy War" as bin Laden took it. The declaration of this holy war on America happened when bin Laden signed a fatwa which declared war on America and its citizens. In 1993 a car bomb attempted to blow up one of the towers wich is to a cetain degree the lead in to this fatwa. After 9/11 America started sending troops over to Iraq to make sure this Terrorist war would stop once and for all. Now Obama is having the troops come home.
My personal thoughts on 9/11 are that we need to remeber it. I have heard alot of different people saying we need to celebrate. I agree but we need to celebrate by rembering. I try not to be judgemental to people. But if I see a guy in the airport with a turbin on I get nervous. That one person may have had absoultly nothing to do with the attacks. But becasue of those 19 hijackers America will never treat muslims or even people from the middle east every again. And you can not change a whole countries perspective in 10 years. I was in kindergarten when the attacks happened. My mom who was my teacher was at home that day, because three days before that she had my little sister Emily. My teacher for the day was Kim Euchner, and I remeber when the phone wrong and Kim answered the phone and just started crying. She didn't tell us what happened but even though we were only in kindegarten we knew something was wrong. I look back on that day that happened ten years ago, and I think we can never forget what happened that day.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/inside-911
The airplane right before it hit the south tower.
9/11 cross at ground zero.
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