World Trade Center September 11th, 2001
Uploaded by ezcheat on Mar 18, 2007
An opinionated four page essay that summarizes and questions various events that went on during 9/11/01. Also looks back at the life of the World Trade Center.
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One of the worst tragedies to ever strike our country happened on September 11th, 2001. A total of four (4) planes were brought down by terrorists causing 2,986 total fatalities. The terrorist attacks were organized by al-Qaeda and their leader Osama Bin Laden, who also was in charge of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. This event took place in the same location but caused much more devastation with 2,595 people losing their lives just from the Twin Towers on 9/11. Two (2) of the four planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one in each tower, bursting the towers into flames and people fleeing for their lives. An estimated two-hundred (200) people jumped to their deaths from the falling towers. However, while all of this was going on, President George Bush was having a visit with an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida. What made it even worse was that Bush was completely aware of the attacks that terrorists had done against the United States of America. So then why, at 9:03 a.m.—fifteen minutes after it was clear the United States was under terrorist attack—did President Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a 20-minute pre-planned photo op? No one knows the answer to that question. In fact, no one has even asked Bush about it. However, we can clearly make out that the government response was poor to this event but that may have been since Washington, D.C. had problems on their own. A plane had crashed into the Pentagon causing a total of 189 deaths. There was one plane, Flight 93, that knew they were next to be hijacked so they did something about it. The passengers of Flight 93 fought back against the terrorists and prevented them from the plane reaching its intended target, instead crashing it into a filed outside of Shanksville, PA. The 9/11 attacks were not the first that the World Trade Center had been a victim of, the towers were bombed for the first time on February 26, 1993. If the towers had already been bombed once before, why were we not ready for another attack on the same site? What possible motive did the terrorists have? The...