The Pentagon

It was a normal day on September 11, 2001 until 4 planes were hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists and were crashed into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and an open field in Western Pennsylvania. It has devastated many people all over the world. In total all four aircraft crashes killed nearly 3,000 people. That day in New York City, 17,400 people were working in both World Trade Center Towers but only 15,000 made it out alive. American Airlines 11 and 175 crashed into both of the WTC…

On September 11th two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City killed about 2,752 people. The other plane crashed into the Pentagon and killed 189 people. This was said to be the largest attack on U.S. since Pearl Harbor. There were about 19 hijackers and it was said that they were from Saudi Arabia and were members of Al-Queda, which was led by Osama Bin Laden. This tragic event brought a lot of attention across America. People all over the country have different opinions of…

This name tag belonged to Dave Tarantino, a navy physician that was in the Pentagon when the hijacked plane hit. He was working in a different section of the office when the plane hit, so he went to the damaged part of the building to look for people in need of help. Working with Navy Captain David Thomas, they rescued Jerry Henson, who was trapped under debris. As soon as they were safely out of the building, Tarantino was ready to go back in to help any other injured people. Thomas, having…

many reasons to believe the government had an idea that 9/11 was gonna be a tragic day. Inside traders knew about the attacks before they occurred. Air defense was told to “stand down”. Planes didn’t make the twin towers collapse, bombs did. The pentagon attack scientifically does not hold up. Flight 93 was completely staged. These accusations…

inconsistences concerning the supposed plane crash on the pentagon, the structure damage from world trade center (Twin towers) and the uncalled for collapse…

second plane crashed into the south towers. It crashed into floors 75-85. Hijackers aboard flight 77 crashed into to part of The Pentagon, but this is far less known than the destruction of the towers. The crash into the pentagon killed 59 plane passengers, and 125 military, and civilian personnel inside the building. That would make 184 people killed at The Pentagon.…

One of the worst terrorists attacks in U.S. history occurred in the date 9/11 in 2001. The attack was about the World Trade Center collapsing to the ground, the Pentagon under attacked, and an attempting to destroy the White House. I interviewed my mom and she says this attack had enough coverage all over the local news and she watched the attack at the hospital after giving birth to my brother. I previously never knew that the Twin Towers were alive or gone today until I found out it’s gone now…

Akatiff, Clark. “The March on the Pentagon.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 64.1 (1974) : 26-33. JSTOR. Web. 6 Feb. 2016. Akatiff, a participant in the March on Pentagon, speaks on the protestors’ rising tensions and their culminating effects during the March. He concentrates on the different levels of tensions among the protestors, and how this polarization inevitably precipitated into the formation of factions. Akatiff’s larger claim is that the March marked a “step from…

as the” pentagon papers”. Ellsberg thought that the American People should be informed of these reports and he decided to make the documents public. When he made the documents public he broke several laws. He gave the documents to the New York Times who began to release excerpts from the documents on June 13, 1971.The…

The recent announcement by the Pentagon of the new created Director of the Innovation position. The position scope is to facilitate and fast track the development and application of the new military technology. The creation of the position was suggested by Eric Shmidt, who is a former Google CEO and is the head of the newly formed Defense Innovation Advisory Board. The Director of the Innovation has not been currently filled. The emphasis and direction of the position is an investment into the…