World Trade Center site

9/11/01 started out as a beautiful peaceful morning in New York, then at 8:46 a.m Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. “I think someone just bombed the World Trade Center”- New Yorker. Then Flight 175 crashed into the the South Tower at 590 mph at 9:03 a.m. At least 100 people were trapped by fire and smoke. After the twin towers were hit, The Pentagon was crashed into between corridors 4-5. The crash killed everyone on Flight 77 and 125 people inside the building.…

Ground Zero Analysis The attacks of the World Trade Center in 2001 can be remembered by many who witnessed it as a tragic, heartbreaking experience. Many of us can remember the exact place we were at when the news came out on that September day. Many people want to pay respects to the hundreds lost, and many have including journalist Suzanne Berne. Suzanne wrote an article on her perception of the experience she had. She visited just six months after 9/11, when debris was still taken away yet…

towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. At 8:46am, American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the North tower, and at 9:03am, United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the South tower of the World Trade Center complex. The South tower collapsed at 9:59am after burning for 56 minutes and the North tower collapsed at 10:28am after burning for 102 minutes. When the North tower collapsed, fires were started as a result of its landing on and damaging the 7 World Trade Center Building…

had in awhile: the sky was a deep ocean blue. Fast forward one hour and a half and now he is stuck 4 floors below the crash site. Brian Clark could have reacted many different ways: he could have given up and crumbled under the pressure, or he would use many of his natural instincts to escape the building and be one of the few to escape from a floor that close to the crash site. Some people believe that it’s only luck when it comes to escaping life threatening situations, but it is evident that…

The Costs of Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the third into the Pentagon in Virginia, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. President George W. Bush was reading to a group of kids in a middle school when he was told the news, and soon later stepped out. He responded by giving a speech to the nation and implementing the Government’s emergency response…

As a firefighter I had insight, but it was still hard to get information because the government was trying to keep things hidden. That's when I started to question things. I found out that three buildings had fallen at the World Trade Center site. The North Tower, The South Tower, and building number seven. I was confused because building number seven had not been directly hit and I didn’t think the that the debris damage would have caused the building to fall. I also saw how the North…

Tower and the museum began. “By laying this magnificent cornerstone of hope, we are sending a message to the people around the world that freedom will always prevail” (Reyes 28). “Symbols help us make sense of the world” (Townsend N.P.). The Freedom tower is a symbol of freedom because it stands in the same place as the twin towers saying we are not afraid of you to the world. The freedom tower built was bilt to be a simbal that…

Marlem Garcia Ramirez Mrs. Tomblin Eng. 1101 11 September 2016 On September 11,2001 four airplanes were hijacked by members of a terrorist group named Al-Qaeda; the leader the infamous Osama bin laden. Two of the four airplanes crashed into the world trade center, striking the north and south tower. The third striking hit the pentagon, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack that ever happened in the united states. Of all the striking’s, the most well-known…

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 towers.…

September 11th, 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The construction of the memorial began on March 2006, and the doors to the memorial opened on September 11th, 2011, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the attack. The memorial is located at the site of the 9/11 tragedy on the former World Trade Center structure and takes up approximately…