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September 11 : The Attacks Of 9 / 11

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“The U.S. has already suffered three attacks on September 11, 2001…” (Chavez, Linda). The United States suffered three attacks in one day. There was four aircrafts full with passengers but only one didn’t make it’s destination which was to Washington D.C. instead it crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. One attack was the World Trade Center known as the Twin Towers that burned down, then the pentagon was also attacked. Therefore September 11, 2001 was a big tragic day to the United States because of the attacks they had to deal with all in one day. To start with is the attack on the Twin Towers that was burned down by American Airlines Flight 11 and the United Airlines Flight 175. “As one fell, the floor was unable to support the additional weight, causing it to collapse, and so on and so on, until nothing was left of the building but a roiling cloud of grey dust” (The Towers Collapsed Pg. 21). After the airplane hits the south tower floors 77 to 89 it falls 56 minutes after. Within the 56 minutes NYPD and firefighters are evacuating as much people as they can from the building before it collapses. Some people are jumping out the windows because they’ve rather jump than the building collapse on them but some that are jumping aren’t just killing themselves their killing people on the ground watching the tower collapse. “Following the attack, the people of New York came together to get through the tragedy” (United We Stand Pg. 15). People in New York made a change and

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