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    On September 14, 2001, President George W. Bush visited the disastrous site. On the same day, families gathered at Union Square to remember the lives lost 3 days before. Families were devastated by the sudden lose of their family and friends. “Rescue workers work late Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C., sifting through piles of

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    The Twin Towers: The World Trade Center memorial and museum was designed by architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker. The memorial and museum was dedicated to the victims of both the bombing of February 26, 1993 and the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda terrorist attack. The names of all the individuals that were affected by these events are engraved on bronze panels surrounding two reflecting pools where the Twin Towers once stood. Each of the pools that represent each tower is one acre a piece. One

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    On September 11, 2001 Flight Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The planes where hijacked by 19 Al Qaeda terrorists that brought along their weapons , to many Americans the mention of 9/11 can be horrifying with the memories that they might have experienced that day with the site of the twin towers being brought down. Because of the hijacked planes, it destroyed many lives as well as the families that lost someone in that tragedy. The United States has

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    is a day Americans will remember for the rest of their lives. This was the day Al Qaeda, a radical Islamic group organized by Osama Bin Laden in the 1990’s, terrorized America. Al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and executed suicide attacks on four sites in the United States of America. The first two of the airplanes were flown into the Twin Towers in New York City, another hit the Pentagon in Washington DC and the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, but could have been headed towards

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    The attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, had negative health consequences beyond the staggering loss of life. The James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, established the World Trade Center Health Program that ensured those affected by 9/11 received monitoring and treatment services for 9/11 related health problems up until 2011 and reopened the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to new applicants

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    this event including the powerful influence of Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda leading to the physical attacks on American centers of high office and iconic places in America. These chain of events that have changed US history and have had wide spread negative effects on the lives of those Americans. A few things I will address are Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, 1993 world trade center bombing, 1983 and 1998 at-tacks against US embassy. The next is the approach and actual occurrence of the 9/11 terrorist

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    as 9/11 has changed the world forever. It was horrific and devastating to the world when United States was attacked by an Islamic Extremist group called Al-Qaeda. They were on a suicide mission and planned out to target 4 main sites. They wanted to strike the 2 Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington, DC. At the time, airport security was weak and not equipped or educated enough to handle such terrorism. This left the world in disbelief and shock.

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    Conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks entered the minds of many Americans as a result of questionable inconsistencies involving several reports from both the investigation and government reports. As a result, groups were formed and documentaries were created. Examples of the documentaries created are Anatomy of a Collapse, 9/11 Commission Report, Loose Change, Pentagon Strike, and The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction. These documentaries include personal testimonies, analysis from both professional

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    Many people died, and many others were lucky enough to make it out alive. Twenty-nine minutes later the North Tower collapsed with much the same result as the first. The two symbols of America’s economy were gone, and not even the so-called World Trade Center Seven, a relatively new forty-seven-floor tower that stood independently across the street from the complex, remained standing. The building burned persistently throughout the day, and that evening became the first

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    needed→ New and unidentifiable human remains were constantly sent here. Although 2983 relatives of the victims question and protest [what do they protest?] with pains and anger, the entangled 9/11 Memorial Museum has been built up at the World Trade Center site in New York. It aims to "tell people the story of 9/11 in the Ground zero of the explosion point." source for quote? WHAT IS YOUR THESIS STATEMENT? Memorial museums, in contrast to the “generic history museum which provides a container for

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