September 11th 2001, posed as another date marked in America’s history that will never be forgotten by citizens of the United States, as well as stories left to be told from generation to generation that missed the tragic event. It all happened at eight forty-five a.m., when a hijacked American Airlines commercial plane crashed into the North tower of the World Trade center. About a hour later a second hijacked plane did the same to the South tower. America would change drastically after this event. The two planes were hijacked by nineteen Al-Qaeda extremist under the authority of Osama bin Laden. The rebuild process would start the next day to began remembering all the lost victims from innocent workers working in the two buildings all the
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Less than a month after the attack United States president George W. Bush declared war on Afghanistan, its lead terrorist group Al-Qaeda, and its Taliban government. Essentially, America wanted retaliation on what is known as the world’s largest terrorist attack. President Bush sent millions of troops overseas in what was thought as the right decision. Stated by Matthew Green, “According to U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, roughly three million Americans entered military service between 2001 and 2011, and nearly two million were deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.” Evidently, Americans wanted to show off their patriotism to the country eventually causing harm to themselves instead. Thousands families lost sons and daughters fighting for what they believed was right …show more content…
Today every person has to go through full body scans, occasional pat-downs as well as identification check-points. Years before 9/11 outside liquid was allowed, any size toiletries were acceptable in airports. Today, only purchased at the airports are allowed and only three ounce toiletries can be accepted. Suddenly, the government created what is known as Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA is constructed agency with new procedures and managing screening at every commercial checkpoint in the country. Sara Steedman writes, “28,000 airport baggage screeners [are] federal workers, all checked baggage is to be inspected with explosives detection machines.” This gives America a sense of protection that trying another stunt like the one happening on September 11th will in fact be much difficult. Also, TSA has the permission from the government to use a watch list of individuals who could pose flight safety
Less than a month after the attack United States president George W. Bush declared war on Afghanistan, its lead terrorist group Al-Qaeda, and its Taliban government. Essentially, America wanted retaliation on what is known as the world’s largest terrorist attack. President Bush sent millions of troops overseas in what was thought as the right decision. Stated by Matthew Green, “According to U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, roughly three million Americans entered military service between 2001 and 2011, and nearly two million were deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.” Evidently, Americans wanted to show off their patriotism to the country eventually causing harm to themselves instead. Thousands families lost sons and daughters fighting for what they believed was right …show more content…
Today every person has to go through full body scans, occasional pat-downs as well as identification check-points. Years before 9/11 outside liquid was allowed, any size toiletries were acceptable in airports. Today, only purchased at the airports are allowed and only three ounce toiletries can be accepted. Suddenly, the government created what is known as Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA is constructed agency with new procedures and managing screening at every commercial checkpoint in the country. Sara Steedman writes, “28,000 airport baggage screeners [are] federal workers, all checked baggage is to be inspected with explosives detection machines.” This gives America a sense of protection that trying another stunt like the one happening on September 11th will in fact be much difficult. Also, TSA has the permission from the government to use a watch list of individuals who could pose flight safety