Essay on The Impact of September 11th on America

When 9/11 occurred it was everywhere within minutes. On the Television, radio and outspread panic through the cell phones at the time. Nearby people watched in awe as the first tower, the north tower was hit. Television crews rushed to the scene to be the first to broadcast what had happened. Not even 20 minutes later the second plane crashed into the south tower, causing that tower to start to burn down too. Both planes were from the United Airlines and allegedly hijacked by terrorist. The both planes had about 20,000 gallons of jet fuel on board. The plane collided with the building which caused a huge explosion followed by smoke and debris coming from the building. From that it was clear the United States was under attack.

On September 11, 2001 terrorists apprehended 4 airplanes and committed the most heinous act in American history. They flew two planes into the world trade center, one into the Pentagon, and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania crash killing more than three thousand American citizens. Since 9 /11many things have changed in America in relation to our national security.

It has been ten years since the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. In the decade since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. has been entrenched in two ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department of Homeland Security was founded, and Osama bin Laden, the alleged perpetrator of the attacks, has been killed. The Patriot Act and other legislation increased surveillance while decreasing our civil liberties. Here's a look at how the attacks and America's reaction to them still affect American lives today.

Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 was a day that no one will forget. I decided to write it out what happened to my family that very day in my mom’s perspective to make it easier to understand. My mom was in Pleasant Hill, CA and decided to skip that day of work because my older sister was sick. Madeleine, my eldest sister, was two at the time. Early in the morning a family friend of ours, Janet, called my mom asking if she saw what was happening. Janet said,” Jeanne the twin towers are on the ground, turn on the news!” My mom was so tired from staying up all night because of Madeleine that when she heard what happened she didn’t belive it. She quickly turned on the news and it replayed the airplanes hiting the twin towers and falling.

“You couldn’t feel that there was any safer place in the world”. An examination of primary and secondary sources will reveal the historical significance of this event. Many Americans still feel bad as a result to the attacks. People were nervous about losing more family members as a result to the attacks. Many people say that they feel foolish worrying about terrorist. After the attacks people began to think. Asking their selves what would be the next spot. Some hijackers bought tickets and everything else with their own money. Leaving evidence for us to find who they work for. At airports, many security problems accrued. People across the country watching all of it happen felt the exact same way as the people right in front of the buildings.

I wake up in the morning in my apartment in LA. I turn on the TV and I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. I was watching live cable news and there was a lot of coverage. I saw that the plane crash into the twin towers. I was frozen and tried to catch each word from the news broadcaster. It felt like a movie, it was unbelievable and unrealistic. They showed a lot of smoke coming from the buildings. It was very chaotic when they shot it up close there were people calling for help, screams,

9/11 was one of the most important events that has ever taken place in American history. Almost everybody’s lives were affected one way or another because of the terrorists attacks that took place that day. After the news got around that the first plane had hit one of the towers, there were thoughts going around that it was only an accident. A person that was working within the North Tower said “I just assumed it was a terrible accident.” Some people that were lucky enough to escape the towers have also been interviewed. The survivors that have been interviewed have told stories that the people in the towers were not panicking, instead they did their best to stay calm because they knew it would help them find a way out. I have decided to interview my mom, Angie Grant, about her thoughts and feelings on the events of 9/11.

America has developed through the different factors of tragedies that the nation went through, everything has shaped America into a stronger country. The September 11 attack was a major tragedy to the United States, also the most known event where airplanes hijackers crashed into North and South Tower of the Word Trade Center along with the Pentagon. (Schwartz, 11/29/16) The September 11 terrorist attack changed America more because the horrific event led to large modifications of laws that are still influenced today, in which have helped to increase the surveillance and protection of the United States’ population.

September 11th, 2001 was the beginning of a new fear, and a sense of Americans had to "watch their back". The attacks made US citizens more aware, but made the US look like it wasn’t as invincible as it was portrayed. Some of the short term effects that took place after 9/11 was the heart ache felt by all the families of almost three-thousand victims in the attack. It caused a complete shutdown of the American air space, stock markets closed down, and insurance companies, airlines and tourists sector showed longer periods of recession. In New York there was a short term oversupply of rental space and a reduction in hotel occupancy. There was a lot of discrimination and still is today against "Muslim-looking" travelers, and a huge increase of hate crimes after the events. Some of the long-term effects after 9/11 was an increase in people joining the military, the USA Patriot Act which came into effect October 26th, 2001. There was a huge increase in security which also involved allowing law enforcement agencies to search private data and the right for USA to detain and deport immigrants suspected of terrorists’ activities. In the book "9/11 In American Culture", professor of information studies Philip Agre says "The U.S. home front itself is as much of a theatre of

September 11, 2001 is a day that no American will ever forget. That day has left a mark on each an everyone of us. That day is commonly known as ‘9/11’ and was the longest day in New York City. Everyone needs to know the dangers of each day, no matter if you see if coming or not. No one on that day know what life changing experience they would go through. Shortly after arriving to work in September 11, 2001, the attacks took place. Flights 11, 77, 93, and 175 were hijacked early in the morning and the crashed occurred shortly after. Not only were the Twin Towers hit that day, but the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were hit. There are many survivors who shared their incredible stories. They addressed what was going throughout their minds

My dad used to work right next door from the twin towers and when we used to visit I would be so happy to see it as it was cool looking. I remember. I was in school when we received the bad news that the towers were attacked. My family was very emotional as my father worked there and had many friends also in the towers. I could not believe my eyes on what I was seeing. How could someone destroy such a beautiful piece of freedom? I was think about my dad the whole time. Thank God my father survived that horrible day as i was very devastated watching. That morning my dad wore a black shirt and his khakis. When he came home he was all grey from the World Trade Center. My dad had blood all over his pants from the people jumping from the buildings. My dad was in shock and coughing up debris for months. It was a very though time for my dad but we got threw it as a

Seventeen years ago the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars, their surveillance state was a fraction of its current size, and you didn't have to take off your shoes to go through airport security (Green). All of that changed because of one terrible terrorist attack; 9/11. The terrorist attack happened on September 11, 2001, when Islamist extremists hijacked four planes and flew them directly into; the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a field in Pennsylvania which was believed to be targeting the White House (What Happened). This became the largest terrorist attack on the United States ever. Ten years later, the United States still has

I never knew what 9/11 was up until the middle of the first semester of my 6th grade year. A teacher of mine, whom I no longer remember the subject he taught, briefly mentioned the attack on the World Trade Center’s twin towers by a pair of hijacked passenger airplanes. In the page we were on of our textbook, I saw a still frame image taken from a video that captured the North Tower standing perfectly fine seconds before it is slammed by Flight 11 that Tuesday morning. Unlike most people that have seen a mainstream picture of the second tower being hit, this was my first visual interpretation of the attacks; however, I would only put this in the back of my head as I left that classroom, probably excited to go home and do something entertaining like using my legos to build something.

My mom was born in Minnesota to her mother and father, who got divorced early in her life after her younger brother was born. She grew up spending time with her cousins, sewing, and listening to music. After she graduated from college she went to work at Twin Tone Records, from which eventually she moved to North Carolina and began working at Mammoth Records. There, she met my dad. Currently, she’s an author who writes from home. While she did not have any relatives involved in the tragedy, she says that 9/11 is the most significant historical event to happen in her lifetime.

Do you ever have one of those moments in your life in which you will never forget where you were? I remember waking up early on September 11, 2001, getting ready for school and my dad telling me hurry up to watch the news with him. Being in 8th grade at the time, the news really wasn’t something I would watch in the mornings so I knew it had to be something important. Then I saw it. An airplane crashing into a tower, people panicking, and mayhem ensuing in a city very well known to me. When any tragic event like 9/11 occurs, the effect it will have on a nation is tremendous. It left America in shock, anger, and sadness just to name a few adjectives to describe the insurmountable amount of feelings that we felt on that day.