The Pentagon

Are we at war? The once cheerful cartoons on the small television monitors get tuned into a muted vivid image of a plane heading toward the twin towers. Than another. Flames begin to blaze as smoke surges through the air, the oxygen we must breathe now. The buildings immediately tilt as our world starts to break, humans’ ordinary humans have a life or death decision to make. But do they really? Because, either way the ones attacked physically need to choose how they’ll die that day. The…

the least for many citizens of the US. On this day the US was put to test by a terrorist group named Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda hijacked four different planes and flew two of them into the twin trade centers in New York. Another plane was flown into the pentagon in Washington DC, and the last plane crashed in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania because the passengers on the plane fought back against the terrorists who were hijacking it. By watching a documentary on George W. Bush about how he…

Nothing can take away the selfless acts of heroism that occurred on Flight 93. Ever since the horrific day of 9/11, three movies have been made about one plane: Flight 93; however, one seems to have “stolen the spotlight” as far as controversy goes. This movie is known as “United 93”. This movie actually surprised me the first time I saw it. I was expecting a large dose of sentimentality, leading up to a musically heightened battle scene. But what I got was truly far better than my expectations…

September 11, 2001, was a day that started off as usual and turned into a completely different scenario. It is remembered as a day that devastated our entire nation. To honor this particular day the many people of New York City remember the heroes that contributed their life to save others. Despite the controversy caused by a number of disasters that occurred on the alluring, mellow morning, the heroes did their task. The events that occurred on September 11, 2001, were solved heroes putting…

US DEFENSE SPENDING IN CONTEXT The Pentagon Budget and Jobs: How does defense spending rate for job creation? This is a compilation of various reports that seeks to demystify the claim that a cut in the defense budget will lead to job losses. The main arguments are: • Although military budget cuts will lead to jobs losses in some way, the percentage of job losses will be higher if the budget cut rather occurs in nonmilitary programs. For example, a study in the state of Massachusetts found that…

Eastern Air Lines aircraft crashed into the Everglades around 11:42 pm Eastern Standard time. This occurred on December 29, 1972 and missed its landing airfield by 18 miles to the Northwest. The Aircraft was spread across the swampy terrain and was a complete lost. Due to accident, 94 passengers of the 163 lost their lives as well as five of the 13 crew. All passenger were injured with varying degrees of injuries. The flight started from John F. Kennedy Airport and was generally uneventful…

observing the truth of the government’s foreign policy, distributing classified documents eventually called the Pentagon Papers, and creating a crack in the Nixon administration. These actions resulted in an immense negative impact on the relationship between the U.S. government and American people in which citizens questioned the credibility of the government. The issues described in the Pentagon Papers were sparked because of the Vietnam War, which in turn was started because of Cold War…

but one issue that is very important in U.S. history is a case known as the Pentagon Papers. This case occurred in 1971 when the New York Times released documents from the Vietnam war accusing former President Nixon and his Administration. The Pentagon Papers were a series of papers that were a classified Defense Department research from the United States activities in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1967. The Pentagon Papers were also known as “Report of the office of the Secretary of Defense…

is also not in a position to repeat the mistakes made by the upheaval that came about from the Pentagon Papers. The last true case that labeled publishers as criminals was that of the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. In brief, this case pursued the publishers of what went on during the period of World War II to the Vietnam War. It highlighted government misconduct and revealed…

This unknown increase was also proven after the release of the Pentagon Papers. Many protests broke out and some protesters were killed for professing their dislike for the number of men in the War, which “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young covered and told the horrid stories of the Protests at Kent State. Each song…