9 / 11 Reflection

September 11, the day I went into my honors government class and I saw on the board that the objective of the day was Remembering 9/11. I remember every year at school we would have assemble for 9/11 because it was a tragic event and hundreds of lives were taken from the world. But this year was different… my teacher (Ms. Neil) asked us “How long should we memorialize 9/11?” and then she said “Why don’t we have a memorial for Pearl Harbor?” Those questions got me thinking when people will stop remembering or memorializing Sandy Hook. So as the day goes on my school has the memorial service for 9/11 and it was more emotional than usually. During 9/11 two former students died Chris ____ and Cadiance Williams, and Cadiance’s grandmother was there

Question 1: For those of you, who were not old enough to realize what was going on; consider how life has changed in the U.S. from a security point of view from the terrorist attacks.

September 11, 2001, a day the people in United States will all remember, a terrorist group called al-Qaeda hijacked four U.S. airplanes and directed them to crush into twin towers and World Trade Center the Pentagon. The fourth plane, thought to be heading to the capitol in Washington, however, crushed in rural Pennsylvania. This terrorist attack took the lives of nearly 3,000 people, resulting in being one of the worst attack on the United States in history. The criprits, Al-Qaeda, is a group that practice in muslim religion and desire to create a muslim state independent from other countries. The September 11 attack by al-Qaeda, later resulted in changes in the United States’s views on safety, vigilance, and privacy.

On September 11, 2011, the United States was rocked with a terrorist attack unlike any other to its date or since. As a nation we grieved and mourned the loss of those that died that day and in the following days from the event. While terrorism was nothing new on this date, terrorism has been around in some form or another since the time man began inhabiting the earth. Terrorism has never been something that the US has been free from, but it is something that the US viewed very differently from that date on.

I have spent a fair amount of time over the last 14 years asking myself one very particular question: What if it had not happened to me? September 11, 2001. On that day, my father and grandmother faded into the dust and flames that besieged lower Manhattan. One day they were there, and the next they were gone, leaving my family without a reason to understand or an answer to hold onto. What if it never happened to me? What if they never went to the Towers that day? What if they had come home? What if they continued to work at Cantor Fitzgerald? What if my mother had not been widowed?

Economic suffering, emotional effects, and the national impact the terrorists caused, will be felt again if we do not take some radical actions to show the world that America will not leave itself open again to such a loss. The damage of September 11, 2001 marked the start of a new era for the United States. Terrorism and national security have become terms that are all too recognizable among Americans since September 11th. Since the attacks, nearly every nightly news telecast has integrated a story about US national security and its war against terrorism. Defending the United States against terrorists is a main concern for the federal

One major impact on me that I can remember is probably 9/11. I remember I was working at IBM at the time and one of my coworkers announced to us that a plane hit the Twin Towers. All of us thought it was an accident; I don't think anybody could imagine someone doing this barbaric thing on purpose. All of that change when we heard that another plane hit the towers; barbaric it might have been, but someone was doing this on purpose. All of us went to the nearest source we could find to watch the news.

Throughout history, there have been many severe attacks in the Unites States. On September 11th, 2001, the lives of many citizens and American history had been changed forever. The 9/11 attacks were administered by the Islam Extremist group, Al-Qaeda. These attacks were geared toward the decimation the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and unsuccessfully towards the White House. The 9/11 attacks are significant to present day change, and to improve security in buildings and airplanes along with other advances. 9/11 was an eye-opener to many Americans and still affects many people to this day.

September 11, 2001 is a day you’ll always remember. It didn’t just destroyed the World Trade center and killed people inside and near it, it also destroyed people who were even 200 miles away because they have lost one of their loved ones. I was just a little girl when this happened but seeing all the documentaries makes me feel like I was there and feel the emotions by just watching. This was a terrorist attack carried by Muslims, though we should never use this against Islam. I don’t know how someone could ever murder such an amount of people.

According to the chapter “under attack”, it covers the backlash of people. The attacks occurred in the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 11,2001. Four airplanes lost control by nineteen men; these airplanes were heading to Los Angeles and San Francisco from different cities. The first stolen airplane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center and the New York City’s 911-call system was receiving dozens of reports about the crash, media and photographer turned their cameras to the incident. However, few reporters said that the incident was deliberate. Government’s response was sent out from New York and New Jersey and it was the largest rescue operations in the nation’s history. In addition, more than a thousands first responders, police officers, firefighters, and paramedic were deployed when the first crash occurred, triage areas were sat up around the World Trade Center to aid the people that have been affected by the incident. Therefore, police units were shutting down subways stations as the firefighters evacuated the civilians.

During the course of the Summit week I attend professor Jeff Childers’ & Father Philip LeMasters class on the Middle East Pre 9/11 and Post 9/11 entitled Dictators, Terrorists, and Refugees. Professor Childers covered the vast expanse of pre-9/11 history of the Middle East and the Christian impact on the region. A reoccurring theme within Professor Childers’ teaching is the movement of Christianity. Surprisingly large Christian cells and churches appeared at the intersections of trade routes and major cities among the routes. Due to the strategic placement of the Christians and churches thousands of people passing by or selling goods heard the good news of Jesus, which in turn spread the gospel when the merchants went home or moved along the trade routes. These same churches

On September 11th, 2001, the Islamic Extremist group, Al-Qaeda, had sent 20 terrorists to hijack three airliner jets to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth jet was on route to the white house, but it crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania. Over three thousand people were killed during this tragic event. This major world event is referred as 9/11, which resulted in a major crackdown on terrorism. Jennifer Caverly, an 11th grade math teacher, thought 9/11 was a terrifying event ”9/11 was a scary moment in my life. If someone could do that so easily, then I was terrified. I felt unsafe in this country .” She still thinks about 9/11 today. “When I think of a world event, I think about 9/11.” The attacks of September

I wasn’t born at the time the attacks happened so I didn’t experience it. The world trade center got hit by two planes. They are also known as the Twin Towers. Both towers went down. What I want to know is how they went down like they did. There is no way the fire could have traveled that fast and how they went down like they did. That is my biggest question. How? It did not have an effect on me like it did other people because I was not born at the time. Be ready for anything and everything. You never know when something might happen. There is more security in the Air Ports now. Just be ready for anything, anything could happen at any moment. Stuff happens just like that. You have to be ready for it. I do not know why they

     September 11, 2001 is a day that will forever live in infamy inside the hearts and minds of American citizens. On that morning, the world saw live the destruction and devastation that terrorism can deliver right to our own backyard. Shocking images of the whole tragedy can still be seen on television even now, a whole six months later, yet even now it still seems unimaginable. As most Americans know, the Federal Government has implemented a huge amount of change to our foreign and domestic policies as a result of 9/11. The most noticeable of these in our everyday lives can be seen in our nation’s airports. Huge amounts of money and resources have been spent to help make sure that such a travesty will never

Now that the truth has been revealed, it is time to reveal on how my family can relate to this situation. And what’s interesting about this event is that it plays quite like my other cousin and his past, more specifically, his hatred against Muslim and his family backing him up. Of course, he was no different like many Americans who had to witness the 9/11 attacks. However, he was a bit different as my family and I was able to see his downfall and the downfall for his whole family as well. That is because, at first, he would seem as though that he was a bit racist and prejudice towards these people. But overtime, we all noticed his views on them would get a little more intensive every time we would visit him and his family. So much so that