Today we did practiced our maps and also watched a video and answered questions on the video.
1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks? He was at a school talking about education reform. He was in a class room with come kids when he got the news.
2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis? Project calm. If the leader isn't calm then no one else will be calm either.
3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away? They thought it would be irresponsible of him to go back into a city that had just been attacked when we didn't know what was coming.
4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur? Closed all airports nation wide and forced every airport to be grounded. Any plane still in the sky could be seen as hostile. The president had plans to give orders to the air force to shoot down any commercial planes that didn't respond to the grounding order.
5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha? There was a very secure bunker there and lots of communications, so he was able to communicate with the departments of the US security team.
6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service? He wanted to give a speech and assure the people that he was going to defend the US. He wanted to give the speech from the oval office and not hiding in a bunker in Nebraska.
7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?
8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job?
9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?
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