Memorials and services for the September 11 attacks

September 11th of 2001 is a day in history that will be remembered forever. What was first thought to be a freak accident turned into a horrific nightmare for our country, America was under attack. On the morning of the attacks a group of al Qaeda terrorists took control of four commercial jetliners headed to California and purposively crashed two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The last plane fell into a Pennsylvania field never reaching its final destination, The White House. These

On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed, 400 of that 3,000 people were firefighters and police officers, in the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in NYC, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in a plane crash near Shanksville, PA.( 11 facts) The World Trade Center was built by American architects Minoru Yamasaki in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. (9-11-01) The World trade Center was located in Manhattan, NY. The Twin Towers were called the “Twin Towers” because they had

The National September 9/11 Memorial and Museum The New York Times, interviewed Barbara Pickell, a sales representative who was the employed at Blue Cross Company at the World Trade Towers on 9/11, recalled that “Everybody started screaming because they could see people jumping out of the building” (“Witness to Apocalypse”). Approximately 3000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks (Templeton and Lumley). Many vanished in the debris, leaving families and friends no time to say

September 11, 2011, started like every normal day in New York City. People rushing to work, children going to school, and people taking a morning walk or jog. But no one knew that this day would turn into a horror film. A terrorist organization call al-Qaeda hijacked airplanes and hammered them into the World Trade Centers North and South Tower along with the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The September 11, 2001, attacks changed America forever (9/11 Attacks - 102 minutes That Changed America). The

Our country has been through many tragedies and devastations over the years, but nothing could prepare us for the horrific event that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City. A series of four terrorist attacks by Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda left the world shaken. Everyone helplessly watched as commercial airlines crashed into the North and South World Trade Centers. The collision left scorching flames, dense smoke, and a gaping hole in the side of the buildings. During that time, thousands

The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of September 11, 2001. The group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the U.S. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The third plane hit the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C, and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000

forget: Grosvenor Square vs. Since 9/11 Today I am going to investigate into the two memorials dedicated to the people who lost their lives on the 9/11, focusing especially on a comparison between them. I will begin by discussing the background behind the memorials and meaning. Further, my focus will be on their importance and locations, the notion of public memory, critics and relatives opinions, hoping this will provide us with a clear perception of 9/11 and the concept of memory and trauma

security, national defense, and in the private sector. Tourism in New York City plummeted affected the attacks. This caused a massive loss in a sector which employed 280,000 people and generated $25 billion per year. Hotel occupancy fell below 40% and 3,000 employees were laid off in the week following the attacks. (Wiki- Economics, History.com) Health effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks were almost non-existent at first, but years and years of study showed that people who worked around the

murdered by Black September, a Palestinian terrorist organisation. By the end of the agonising ordeal, 11 Israeli athletes and coaches had been killed, and one German police officer. Consequently, the “Operation Wrath of God” was carried out in order to assassinate the individuals involved in the massacre, in which five of the eight members of the terrorist group were killed. The remaining three members were captured, and later released by West Germany after the hijacking by Black September of a Lufthansa

The horrific events of that day definitively answered Linenthal’s question, the scale and scope of the 9/11 attacks understandably pushing the 1995 bombing from center stage. The 9/11 attacks, by their very destructiveness, helped to relegate the Oklahoma City bombing to a side exhibit in the national memory—to somewhere in the background of Linenthel’s “landscape of violence.” The 9/11 attacks were larger, far more deadly, and committed by a more faceless, harder-to-comprehend enemy, whether defined