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Informative Essay On 911

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September 11, 2001, one of the most traumatic days in United States history. The day we lost many lives and grieved as a whole. A day that would forever change the lives of citizens’ in the United States forever. Just imagine one day waking up and hearing that a local business around your area had been struck by planes and killed thousands of people in the process, and being in the area, witnessing it as it happens. 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 …show more content…

One has to wonder how our country was not able to see this coming. I uncovered some interesting facts concerning the September 11 attacks and some of these facts are really heart wrenching. Only 20 people were pulled from the debris of the twin towers. It took 99 days to completely put out all of the fires from the explosions, and “144 wedding rings were found in the debris of the collapsed towers” (Lord). There were 3,051 children that lost their parents that day, and one fact that I find interesting is “three hours before the attacks a machine called a Random Event Generator at Princeton University predicted a cataclysmic event was about to unfold” (Hind). Even though it did not say where the event was going to take place, I think the government should have been notified. There should have been some type of clues of some sort that the government had in their possession. As much technology as the world has today, how could they have not known that something this catastrophic was going to happen, it is simply

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