Remembering 9/11.
By Tania Dooley Updated: August 23, 2021
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On the morning of 9/11 I woke up, went to the living room and turned on the television and heard the most devastating news I'd heard in a while. A plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers located in New York City, then eighteen minutes later a news broadcaster announced that another plane had crashed into the second tower. After this I thought this surely was no coincidence; America under attack. You always remember where you were and what you were doing when a tragedy of this magnitude strikes.
Immediately after the news of the attacks rescue workers such firefighters and police rushed to the towers to help those stuck inside. In the blink of an eye, the towers came down and flattened to the ground. All those people inside killed including those that came to help. President George W Bush called the site of this tragedy Ground Zero.
During investigation of the attacks it became clear that it had been a planned attack by the terrorist group called Al Queda (Kids Britannica). Besides the two planes crashing into the towers, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, the nation's headquarters for the defense or war department, and a fourth plane crashed into Pennsylvania field. In a eerie twist of fate and interestingly, builders broke ground on the Pentagon exactly sixty years before the 9/11 attacks, on September 11, 1941 (Defense.gov).
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References
10 Things you probably didn't know about the Pentagon.
Retrieved September 9, 2020 from https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/story/Article/1650913/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-pentagon/
September 11 Attacks. Retrieved September 9, 2020 from https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/September-11-attacks/574595
