Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack. Not only did the people on the planes die, there also was many firemen & police men terribly lost. During the attack many people volunteered to help save some lives & lost theirs instead. Innocent children were brutally murdered & punished for a stupid war. Those people paid the price for other's crimes.
The men and women currently deployed to these areas frequently engage in combat, and regularly witness injuries, trauma, and death. Even if a person tries not to internalize the horrific events they experience, they will likely be changed by war. Soldiers are negatively affected by combat; many return from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alcoholism, and suicidal thoughts. Some soldiers return from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. According to the article "What Is Combat PTSD?”, Diagnosing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can be hard because soldiers view reporting their symptoms as a sign of weakness (What, 1).
The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide. The response to this was the ongoing “War on Terror” with the deposition of the Taliban being the goal. Thirteen years later troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq from both America and Britain although they are beginning to withdraw. Before the attacks of September 11th music had been used for protest there
Unit 2 Assignment Erika Barron Business Law LS311-01 September 4, 2012 As careful as many people try to be, accidents do tend to happen. Unfortunately, Ms. Esposito happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. By being knocked down, Ms. Esposito incurred horrible injuries in which she will have to deal with for the remainder of her life. There are many factors in play that caused the injuries and damages in the case of Ms. Esposito. Jason Davis failed to look around him to see if others were too close by, as a reasonable person would have taken a moment to take a slow turn and monitor his surroundings.
It took only ten minutes for Nikolas Cruz to enter the school premises, fire dozens of rounds throughout the school, and kill seventeen students and teachers. Many of the results of other shootings occurred here as well, but the perpetrator did not kill himself at the end; rather, he left campus in accordance of the students who fled the school. Though, the police forces caught him soon after. The feeling of dread that the students felt as their peers and teachers fell, before them, downed by the malicious intents of an alumnus cannot and could not be tolerated. Those within the building suffered through the dread of death, but their families had to endure the fear of their loved one falling to those bullets.
As people fled from their homes they were machine-gunned by fighter planes. The three hour raid completely destroyed the town. It is estimated that 1,685 people were killed and 900 injured in the attack and the British leaders did not want that to happen to Britain especially when it would be a much lager scale. -29th September, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which transferred the Sudetenland to Germany. When Czechoslovakia's head of state protested at this decision Neville Chamberlain told him that Britain would be not go to war over the Sudetenland.
The first property damage reported was a Nike store and even the police headquarters was damaged by the protestors the riots were keep on getting more intense as now the protestors started blazing police cruisers on fire in various location and many bank branches were damaged which led to a total lockdown to Younge street police even the transportation was put on lockdown all the buses and subway was halted. For the first time in Toronto police used tear gas to control the riots. Now the police came in action and started to use rubber bullets and pepper sprays to stable the condition. Over the course of the day 300 people were arrested and many were injured during arrest and next day it was a relief day as many of the lockdown were removed and public transportation was operating again and additional officers from the Ontario
So many questions with no answers were asked that day the twin towers burned to ashes. How could this happen? Why us? Confused looks covered everyone’s face as the first plane hit. Many expressed their thoughts as “it feels like a movie”.
In the images I chose for my Square of Hope, they all symbolize what comes to mind when I talk about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The first image is the twin towers, after being hit by the aircraft that was hijacked. I recall September 11th, 2001 as being a sad day. I could feel the mixed emotions of the kids in my class and also the teachers as we heard the news on the TV and the intercoms. Although I was too young to understand why the towers were bombed, I was still able to comprehend that this had been a horrible attack against the U.S.
A picture is worth a thousand words. But for many people a picture taken by Richard Drew called "The Falling Man" left many people speechless. Two years after the terrorist attacks on world trade centers author Tom Junod was inspired to write his famous article for Esquire Magazine entitled The Falling Man. In his article Junod discusses the victims of the terrorist attacks who were forced out of the towers due to the overwhelming heat from the fire or in desperation for relief from the smoke. These people who ended up in this unimaginable position and ended jumping from the towers.