Angel Flores Period 4B October 3, 2013

9/11
On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked The Twin Towers. Nine-teen Al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners so they could fly into the towers in a suicide attack. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers (Twin Towers) This event took place in New York in 2001. Many people were killed, 2,977 People to be exact. Osama Bin Laden orchestrated this attack. Seventy five to eighty of the victims who were killed were men. More than 400 of the people killed were police officers and fire fighters. Over 10,000 of the people were treated for injuries. 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center. There were other attacks on the World Trade Center, In February of 1993 there was a bombing and it killed six innocent people. September 11, was the largest attack on American grounds. They built a memorial for the thousands of people who died. The Memorial Museum has a memorial dedicated to all the unique lives of each victim. It has all of their names and they are inscribed in bronze around the twin memorial pools. The pools are in the exact same place as the Twin Towers once stood. The Memorials pools are nearly an acre in size and have the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America. The destruction of the Twin Towers and other things caused severe damage to the economy of Manhattan and had a huge effect on global markets, which closed Wall Street until September 17. It also closed civilian airspace in the U.S. and Canada until September 13. In fact a lot of places closed after the attack. It was either because of all the destruction or out of respect

for all of the people that were killed. Many were still afraid that there would be more attacks so that could be another reason. Many innocent people were killed in this attack. The North and South towers were completely destroyed along with all of the people in them. Nineteen Al-Qaeda men were responsible for all of this. This was a really tragic day and may all of the people whose lives were taken, rest in peace.

Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11 http://www.911memorial.org/