On a cold December 30, 1903, parents and children were headed to the Iroquois Theater in downtown Chicago to see Mr. Bluebeard. The theater had just opened that day and was said to be “absolutely fireproof;” in the end, the exact opposite was true. The tragedy begun when an arc light shortened and ignited a drop curtain. When that happened audience member’s panicked and began scrambling to escape but due to the over-packed crowd there was no way to escape thorough the small main doorway. (Sauberman) Ultimately, due to misjudgments and mistakes the Iroquois Theater burned down, killing a total of 602 people; because of this, stricter theater fire codes were passed.
Secretaries, businessmen, mothers and fathers. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by despicable acts of terror. Most Americans remember where they were when the series of malicious events occurring, and the feeling of shock they had when it was first heard on the news. On that day most citizens were scared for their lives and the lives of loved ones involved in the attack. It wasn’t until three or four years later people started to ask questions about who was behind the events.
The Twin Towers were collapsing, but of course I was imperious. I didn’t know what was happening, so I kept yelling at my mom to change the channel. As I grew older, I realized what 9/11 was. More than a thousand people died on this day. However, it wasn’t until the short video clips at the Museum of Tolerance showed me that this was genocide.
After a few minutes of watching the same clip, I suddenly saw another plane crashing into the twin of the other building. I couldn’t believe it, I looked at my family and all you could see was the sorrow and angst in their faces as they sat with there mouths dropped open. As the cameras zoomed in on the masses of people covered with a grey ash, you could see in the background smoke swarming the air and then the first tower went tumbling down. That’s when it really hit me that our country was under attack. Since I was so young I didn’t really know that there were more planes than the two that had hit the Trade Center.
We felt vulnerable and grieved as we tried to piece the puzzle of this horrendous catastrophe we wondered who was to blame for this attack. Many of us still don’t feel safe. What is the root of such hatred? Our lives changed instantaneously the deaths of adults who were killed in the attacks or died in rescue operations
Finally, the fourth plane crashed into a field in the rural area of Pennsylvania around 10:03 A.M. (911 timeline). After all these terrorists attacks on the United States this country was affected in so many ways. The effects of September 11, 2001, now known today as 9/11, were the loss of lives, the economic consequences and the security at the airports. The loss of innocent lives during 9/11 was
September 11th 2001 Through My Eyes On September 11th, 2001 New York City witnessed one of the worst terrorist attacks in history, if not the worst. Ten Al Qaeda members hijacked two airplanes in mid-air and each was flown into one of the World Trade Center buildings eventually causing the 110-story buildings to crumble down killing 2606 people. Ten years later on September 11th, 2011 the 9/11 memorial was opened to the public. I had the opportunity to visit this memorial with my class and the experience was mind-boggling. After all that happened on 9/11 and all the crazy people out in the world I was really surprised about the fact that there was a lot of security to get in to the memorial but not nearly as much as I would have
Even though you are dead and everything, you are still placed alongside hundreds of other dead guys. It does not seem peaceful at all to me. It really doesn’t. When “I was only thirteen, they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage” (salinger21). I was frustrated as hell when I found out Allie died.
Every night American family saw graphic pictures of Zippo raids, bombings and killings. Almost every town and village in the America faced the problem of their young men being either killed or wounded in Vietnam * Others faced physiological problems such as post-traumatic stress * President Johnson ordered heavy air force bombing raids which led to deaths of thousands of Vietnamese civilians including women and children * More than 11 000 died in 1967 a further 16 500 died in 1968 ( American soldiers) * The My Lai massacre resulted in the murder of 397-504 civilians mainly women, children and the elderly. Many of the victims were raped and tortured * The horror of death maiming, burning, terror and unthinkable destruction of a small country on the evening news, coupled with the threat of the draft made it feel like nothing
The ten year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy is nearly upon us, a day that is seared into the memories of everyone who was there or watched it happen on television. The death and destruction on that September morning was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life. My immediate reaction to watching this horror unfold was and still is, “let’s find the bastards that did this and torture them in public for the world to see”. After the planes hit, hundreds of people jumped to their deaths, their only other option was to burn alive, some holding hands as they threw themselves to the mercy of their God. Thousands of people died that day and the volunteers who searched through the rubble to find survivors are continuing