7 World Trade Center

The Remembrance of 9/11 Imagine you’re having an incredibly relaxing day walking through New York City in the cool, crisp weather. Suddenly, a plane crashes into the North building of the Twin Towers. Your heart begins to break as innocent people are jumping off the South building, committing suicide, right in front of you. This perspective shows the agonizing pain of someone just walking by the Twin Towers at the time of the incident. The attacks on September 11, 2001 were so tragic and…

of a survivor, we see the fear and stress that many felt as they tried to make it out of the burning building alive. On a clear Tuesday morning, on the day of 9/11/01 at 8:45 a.m. an American Boeing plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center and immediately severely injured or instantly killed the occupants of the impacted part of the building. The 9/11 attacks were a series of terrorist attacks against the United States associated with the Islamic…

terrorist actions of Al Qaeda against the civilian population of the United States. On this tragic day, 2973 people had died in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, as well as in the 4 hijacked planes that were used to crash into these buildings. Such an attack on American soil had not been seen since Pearl Harbor, which left Americans, as well as the rest of the world, confused and scared as to what would happen from these events. In memory of this tragedy, September 11th exhibits, such as the…

of a non-global agenda. Terrorism had not taken center stage as the world had focused on two world conflicts and a subsequent cold war between two world super powers. A series of caliphates in the Middle East had occurred well into the 1920’s where boundaries soon after were redefined from the spoils of World War I. The 1990’s foreshadowed a preview of 21st century mass-casualty-terror tactics; bombing attacks that included the World Trade Center (1993), Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in…

Mere months after the September 11th attacks on the United States, Alan Jackson released a song that he titled, “Where Were You?” He debuted the song on the Country Music Awards stage in November of 2001. The nation was crying out in shock and despair and Jackson joined in that cry with his song. In writing “Where Were you?” he did so in a time of national confusion. After the attack, a plethora of emotions poured out from each and every home. In light of this situation, Jackson attempted to try…

There are many headline events that changed my life in positive and negative ways. Some of them were good and some of them were bad. We live in a world where even the smallest things can have a humungous impact on our lives. There have been times that made me feel incredibly vulnerable and there were times that I was not sure if I would make it out alive. Even though I am still breathing, sometimes I do not see how. In Billy Joel’s song, “We didn’t start the fire”, he refers to many events that…

regarding the attacks had to be cancelled. Also, within the college education sector, the “fastest growing area of study is domestic security” (History.com). Domestic security is the study of how to keep a society safe. After the attack on the World Trade Center, many college students felt the need to protects the United States from future attacks. Many college students were now studying Domestic Security. Without this event, the protection of the United States would be substantially…

The World Trade Center Memorial commemorates the September 11, 2001,attacks and the bombing that occurred at the World Trade Center in 1993. The memorial can be found at the former location of the Twin Towers in New York. These fountains that rest in the footprints of the towers are a powerful reminders of our nations history and all the lives that were lost that day. This memorial is ultimately successful because it evokes emotion whether that be sadness or possibly a feeling of serenity or…

event has had a lasting effect on many of the United States practices, ideas, views, and actions, and today we can still see the results of this incident in our everyday lives. The terrible terrorist attacks that occurred on this day at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania were planned and executed by the terrorist Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. Through all the events that transpired on this day, a total of about 3,000…

On September 11, 2001 many early risers in California were tuned in to morning television shows that were interrupted with news that the north tower of the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. We watched the news coverage of this horrible accident and viewed images of smoke billowing form the badly damaged tower. What we were viewing was scary and we were concerned for the people involved. But we were about to see something even more shocking and terrifying, a second plane slamming into…