9/11 Attack Essay

On September 11, there were attacks on the twin towers in New York City and over 3,000 people were killed. Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon outside of Washington D.C., and the last one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The group who did the attacks were supposedly al-Qaeda, and the guy in charge of it was Osama Bin Laden. We don’t know where he is today, but they’re out there looking for him and will soon figure out why he did it and what truly happened. There were 19 group members, who hijacked four planes, and those planes were flight 11, flight 175, flight 77, and flight 93. Mohamed Atta, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, and Salem al Suqami were in charge of flight 11. Fayez Banihammad, Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza al …show more content…
Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmed al Haznawi, Ziad Jarrah, and Ahmed al Nami were all in charge of flight 93. The only surviving hijackers are Wail and Waleed al Shehri, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Mohand al Shehri, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmed al Nami, and Salem al Hazmi. Some victims that we so far know of are Gordon M. Aamoth Jr. (age 49), Edelmiro Abad (age 40), Marie Rose Abad (age 34), Andrew Anthony Abate (age 57), Vincent Paul Abate (age 57), Laurence Christopher Abel (age 32), Alona Abraham (age 4), William F. Abrahamson (age 7), Richard Anthony Aceto (age 4), and Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann (age 55). One of the first responders that we know of is Ken George and he worked for New York City’s Department of Transportation. He was sent to the World Trade Center yesterday, when the attacks happened. He said, that instead of directing traffic, he was sent to working on sorting out debris from the attacks, which also included some human remainings. There were tons of other first responders that we do not know the names of, but we send a thanks out to all of them and they’re some of our