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
9-11 Descriptive Writing How the world can change in the blink of an eye. "Americans woke up to the news blaring the impossible! They sat stunned as they watched the events unfold". On this horrendous day of 9-11 the United States of America experienced an unexpected tragedy that left millions of citizens in total disarray as those magnificent towers came burning down. A wound that would not heal.
“Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn’t going to be room to bury anyone else?” (3) 2,996 people were killed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Oskar Schell’s father was one of them. At 9 years old he was forced to deal with the death of his favorite person in the entire world with no explanation of why and he was left to make sense of it. This quote describes how in depth Oskar thought about death after the loss of his father and how it affected him. It makes the reader think about how many people were actually killed on 9/11 but how the rest of the world stayed the same exact size.
What was covered up was the embarrassing reality surrounding the futility of his death-the wasting of an iconic American hero. What was fabricated was a fairy tale story of a heroic battle, one that would support the Bush administration's global war effort while not undermining its military recruiting. What was deliberately ignored was an incident at his funeral-reported in the May 4, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle and New York Daily News-when Tillman's youngest brother, Rich, took offense at words that Tillman was now "with God"; he stated to the gathering, "Pat isn't with God. He's fucking dead. He wasn't religious."
For a long time now Isis has been a major problem for the United States. They have executed two American journalists this year alone and are going to continue doing so unless the United States puts a stop to it. If the United States doesn’t stop Isis – no one will. Isis is growing more each day by recruiting a ton of terrorists all over Syria and Iraq. Barrack Obama must act fast before it is too late and more Americans get killed.
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.
In 1993 Al-Qaeda planned to kill the UN senator. They planted a bomb in the Egyptian towers (NEEDS FINISHING) Because of all these attacks from the Middle East, nobody felt they were safe anymore in the US and were always paranoid about whether they could wake up today and would die. By 2001 these fears started to fade away and people thought they
The attack was labeled "the most lethal terrorism in human experience." Also, 9-11 was by far the worst terrorist attack on American siol. This attack took a lot of planning, many say it was "strategically planned" meaning they had everything very organized & in order. Not only was it very well planned, also the terrorists had arranged for the planes to crash into specific locations such as: the Twin Towers, the White House, & the Pentagon building in D.C. Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack.
The attack on September 11, 2001 still leaves me with a lot of anger. This tragic attack not only affected me, but it also hurt many other people in the Unites States. Things like this can occur at any time, so that is what is so scary. Who would have ever thought that people would hijack a pair of airplanes to crash into the Twin Towers? First of all, I was in the third grade when this happened.
A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters in the history of the United States. Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda.