9/11 Research Paper

On September 11, 2001, I was seated in my third grade class at the age of eight years old. Every morning we had a “news” station that would automatically come on at 8:30 a.m. called Channel One News, tailored for children. However, after this five minute long news segment ended we started class. I remember commotion in the halls, and my teacher went out to see what was going on. She came back in, and immediately turned on the television that had just recently automatically shut off. There is was, a burning building, at the time I had no clue what was going

When the first airplane hit the north tower, people all over the world were confused, in shock, and in denial. Many people thought that it was an accident, but when the second plane hit the south tower, everyone knew it was a terrorist attack on America. People all across America came together to help the impacted citizens, whether they were in the building or a loved one of theirs was in the building. Concluding to that the societal response was one of the most significants impacts of 9/11 on the United States.

I was turning three years old when everyone’s lives changed. I can’t imagine a day where one event causes an entire country fall silent and pay attention. The knowledge I have gained of the acts on September eleventh have been in history classes, “where I was when it happened” stories, and documentaries I have watched. I will never know the exact fear that was felt that day but I can understand the current events that have happened and are happening today.

The day of 9/11 began just like any other for Monica, a young mother and an ordinary American citizen. She got up and made her two young children and husband pancakes for breakfast. They ate and laughed. After breakfast, Monica sat her children down to watch cartoons while she and her husband worked out finances. She paid little attention to the T.V. Then, at 8:46 am, the day suddenly took a drastic turn for the worst. the T.V. screen no longer displayed happy little cartoon animals; it showed a massive skyscraper with smoke billowing up from it; the World Trade Center had been hit by a hijacked American plane.

A large group of people called “The 9/11 Truth Movement”, that an airliner didn’t hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre couldn’t have been brought down by airliner impacts and burning aviation fuel alone. The group had pointed out the demolition squibs emerging from the Twin Towers at levels far below the aircraft impact zones and prior to the collapses. Many witnesses, including the firemen, policemen and people who were inside the towers, claim to have heard explosions below the aircraft impacts, including the basement levels. The day of September 11, 2001, was widely derided by the conspiracy community and held up further evidence that 9/11 was an “inside job”.

It’s your day off, and you’re sitting at home, watching TV, when you hear a boom followed by the screen in front of you flicking off and back on. Peering out the window, the sight of debris crashing into the ground only a few feet away from your house greets you. You can see black smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center above you. At this moment, you’re suddenly aware that your house is shaking underneath you. What you would have just witnessed would later be known as 9/11. Nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda managed to hijack four airlines, two of which were flown into the World Trade Center towers. This resulted in the loss of nearly 3,000 lives, $100 billion in property costs, and many grieving families.

Billowing smoke, rolling flames, flying debris, and people dying was what September 11, 2001 looked like to a nation attacked by terrorists. Two airplanes crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center on a clear, normal Tuesday morning in New York City. People all over the nation were watching; kids and teachers in classrooms, healthcare workers, military, business employees, and others. A scene of destruction and death was witnessed that morning. People were jumping to their death from the 110-story skyscrapers to escape the death of burning alive or smoke inhalation. While watching this horrific scene, the south tower collapsed killing people instantly on its route down to the bottom of the street.

The shock of September 11 was communal to all those in the United States. No one specific individual could have assumed that a disastrous event like the crashing of the twin towers would have transpired. With the aid of the media the American population received every detail of the manifestation in entirety. To the nation this event was so catastrophic that cities and corporations shut down. New York, Washington, and other major cities closed down. The government, businesses, airlines, amusement parks, recreational events, and restaurants even closed or postponed the events planned. This incidence was so astonishing to the nation that Wall Street and the Stock Market even shut down for several days. The nation was in great distress and the media swooped in to take hold of their perfect opportunity to contort the information reported to the American people.

Everything began 5 prior on my 13th birthday. I was with my mother who was a doctor, my dad who was a lawyer, my uncle who worked at the World Trade Centre and my younger sister who was very caring at the time. We were going to visit the Twin Towers were my uncle’s office was. As we went in, I was amazed at how huge it was and builders have built the two towers the same. As my uncle was finishing his work, I was simply investigating the entire area. Every floor was an alternate segment. I had an inclination that

It took one man to create this disastrous day of September 11, 2001. Almost 3,ooo lives were taken and many more injured. The attacks were carefully coordinated. It was the deadliest day in history for New York Firefighters. A terrorist group named Al-Qaeda had planned and performed an attack on the city of New York and Washington, D.C. Four hijacked planes crashed into a series of important buildings. Starting around 8:30 A.M. an airplane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center creating chaos in New York City. Then around 9 A.M. a second airplane crashed into the south tower, but this was just the beginning. This was not the World Trade Centers first terrorist attack; in 1993 six people were killed by a bomb set up by terrorist (DoSomething.org). People jumped from the buildings rather than get burned alive or inhale too much smoke because they did not wanna suffer. When both towers collapsed, people and buildings went down with it. Most of the steel held together, but also broke into pieces and is used in a memorial also known as Ground Zero.

On September 11, 2001, I recall being in first grade at Fillmore Elementary in Hamilton, Ohio. I arrived to school and entered Mrs. Scholar’s, my first grade teacher, classroom on the first floor of the building. I walked into the classroom and I immediately saw the television on. I thought this was odd because I thought the televisions at the school could only play DVDs or VHS. The television was on the local news station. I did not know it at the time, but it was recapping what had just happened to the twin towers in New York City. The screen showed an airplane going into a tower. I was not scared or shocked.

When anyone searches about Building 7 of the World Trade Center in Google, he\she will be shocked. There are some websites that are dedicated to prove their points of view on the collapse of the building 7. One of the websites that comes out when the research is done is

On that late summer morning in September 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airplanes. The hijackers were terrorists who were carrying out attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Just after 9:00 am, the Hijackers crashed flight 175 into the 75th-85th floors of the south tower. About an hour later the tower collapsed. The west side of the Pentagon was hit by Flight 77 shortly after the south tower was hit. Approximately one hour after the south tower was attacked, the north tower collapsed as well. The fourth airplane did not reach its intended because

I was told about the events of that horrific day when I was only four years old. I did not understand anything. My mom had told me because I had to know what kind of world I was born into. Each year I learned more and more about the events. The first time I saw images of the towers, was on TV when I was seven. I remember looking at the television, and going through the channels on 9/11 and seeing a documentary named, “The Miracle of Stairwell B.” I remember seeing so much things and I could not handle it. I started to cry, and began to realize that people actually can suffer that much. I was not sure what I did after that, but I know I was never the same.

The interview I conducted with my mother shows how people in the public of the United States felt that day. In the area we lived in they thought we were the next target, we lived close to Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Fairborn Ohio. They were stopping anyone and everyone that lived in Ohio that day from being able to go anywhere or do anything. According to my mother, “I found out at 8:45 am when the first tower was attacked. All hell broke loose and sirens