The Pentagon

self-discovery. Teen history buffs will appreciate Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin. Sheinkin’s riveting, provocative work chronicles what whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a figure central to the Pentagon Papers, risked to uncover a government…

American Citizen, as a responsible citizen, [he] could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public.” (Ellsberg, 1971). As one of the most impactful revelations regarding political control in history, the release of the Pentagon Papers assured that never again would the public be so naive. Over time, whistleblowers provided society with such extensive disclosure that the majority of the public no longer trust any political figures. People in a democratic society…

The Desegregating Lunch Counters at Woolworth Sit-in, Third World Women Alliance, and The Sharon Statement made the US face a new issue to face. 1991, four students from A&T in Greensboro, NC began the sit-in at the Wool-Worth. They proceeded to have this sit-in to accomplish equal rights for African Americans. Respect was gained at the end of the sit-in for the four students. Third World Women Alliance started in the late 60’s and it was a liberation movement for African American Women. The US…

prior restraint on the New York Times from printing out more newspapers on the Vietnam war and the classified study called, "History of U.S. Decision-Making on Vietnam Policy." It was not only the New York Times that had printed out the papers on the Pentagon papers, are the information on the Vietnam war, but also The Washington Post. Supreme Court's Decision The Supreme Court decided in favor of the Newspaper companies in a 6 to 3 vote among the Supreme Court Justices. The Supreme Court…

All thirteen of us had to go through security background checks a few months before going to Washington for visiting the Pentagon. All guests are required to have a sponsor for access to the Pentagon and for more than three guests, sponsors may ask for an exception to the policy. We were more than three and Professor Speel got an exception for us. When we got close to the Pentagon building, Professor Speel asked us to stay calm upon arrival so that the guards at the entrance would not think…

where they were going. When he looked outside, he stopped putting in the address; they did not need it because they could see the thick, black smoke from the Pentagon. “There was not a cloud in the sky, not an airplane anywhere.” He said that this was unusual because there were always smaller airplanes everywhere. As they headed towards the Pentagon, they had to check in with Dulles Tower to let them know that they were coming, and then they had to check in with the National Tower. When they…

World Trade Center 7 collapsed on the same day as World Trade Centers 1 and 2 but had a completely unrelated cause raising countless eyebrows as to what actually happened. It is stated that if the twin towers had not also come down that the collapse of World Trade Center 7 “would probably have captured the attention of the city and the world,” but since this event was dwarfed by the collapse of the Twin Towers, the mystery was never discussed. As more information regarding what really happened…

Conspiracy Theory On September 11, 2001 a catastrophic event occurred in New York. The twin towers were struck by two aircrafts and they collapsed in just minutes. This horrific event ended in about 3,000 people killed or severely injured. After this there was a lot of controversy about the event and many scientists and authors started putting out conspiracy theories about the event. Some of these conspiracy theories are completely irrelevant and some are believable, which caused me to go into…

This day was just an ordinary morning until two huge planes, thought to be commercial planes hit both of the World Trade Centers (Twin Towers) in New York, not only the people in New York were affected as two other planes were also crashed into the Pentagon, one of the biggest government private properties and around a village located in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This was one of the worst incidents that had killed thousands of lives and destroyed thousands of families. This occasion was thought…

The section of the Pentagon that had been hit eventually collapsed approximately 30 minutes the crash occurred. (ADD MORE HERE). On November 22nd, 2004 a private plane on rout to pick up President Bush clipped a single light pole and crashed a minute away from landing, scattering debris everywhere however Flight 77 had completely torn five different light poles out of the ground and still maintained enough energy and force to crash into the Pentagon. There was no traces or marks that…