My mom was in graduate school at Columbia University when the attacks occurred. This Event shaked her life. No one should ever go through this. She suffered from post traumatic stress for a few months after 9/11. This is a very sensitive subject for my mom to talk about. My mom was 25 years old, living in New York, studying at Columbia University. Columbia University is 6 miles from ground zero. She was wearing a swimsuit and on her way to teach a class in the pool at 8:00 am. A few kids in her class talked about a small plane flying into the south tower. That class went for the full hour. After that she walked to her on-campus apartment. Several of her roommates were watching tv. It seemed like a minute then the north tower was hit. Everyone
It was a sunny day here in New Jersey, I was getting ready to go see the Twin towers memorial the next day."Julie! Come down here please we need to talk!"said my mother.
“I'm confident air travel is still the safest method of transportation.” Said Chad Elwood pilot for southwest airline.
Chris murry 3rd and hes team of navys on may 5 2009 we was sent to pakanstan to kill osama ben liden. I came to the army because of 9/11. I wanted to be the one to take the leader of 9/11 down. So from 2002 to 2009 i was training. But that year i knew we was going to catch him. We was getting the helacoter ready for the mission and my sargent gave me two other people to go with me. We was on our way to pakastan. The helacoter put us 10 miles from the hide out. So we walked for 10 miles and there it was the hide out. There was a big wall and it was quiet. We clamed over the wall and was attacked. We hide behinde this big rock. And while my partners was distrating them i ran behind the hideout and clamed in the north windeo. Then i started to
Many people, including myself,would consider the terrorist attack of 9/11 as one of the most horrific events in US history. This event had changed and affected not just America but the entire world. .
When the towers were attacked early in the morning, my family and I were having a normal morning. We were waking up and you were three months old so I was focused getting you up for the morning and getting you changed and ready for the day. At about 7 in the morning, I turned on the news and saw what happened right after the first plane hit so I went to wake up your dad and told him what happened and he came out and we started watching the news. Minutes after the first plane hit was when the second plane hit and that’s when I knew that it was a terrorist attack and it was an event that i’ll never forget and it changed me and changed our country that day. Soon after, your dad and I realized the severity of the situation
I interviewed my mom on September 11, 2016. My mom’s name is Lalys Orozco. “During September 11, 2000, I was working at a clinic in Arizona, filing the vaccine sheets and other important information. During the morning, everyone was so paranoid and very frightened. Anxiously, I had asked them what was going on…Then I discovered that, to my surprise, the World Trade Center had collapsed due to two US airplanes crashing into them. One of them had hit the east side and the other plane the west side. Thousands of people had died that day…and the people whom were trapped in the highest floors…didn’t make it out alive. There were a lot of debris, flying in gusts of wind and dust around the big fires burning upon the buildings. I felt bad for the
The late 1990’s into the early 2000’s was a time of great economic success that took a turn for the worst as the war against terrorism began. In America, the economy was at its peak especially on Wall Street until September 11th 2001. The attacks that occurred on September 11th deeply affected America. The attacks caused the Dow to drop tremendously along with causing the recession to deepen. America was led into of the biggest government spending periods in a long time. The cost to fund the war along with to rebuild the economy held a toll on all Americans. America had to dig itself out of a hole. Unlike the economy, technology was on the rise. Many new inventions such as wireless internet, mobile devices, and new forms of social media were created.
It was just a normal day, I did everything I would normally do. I woke up around 6:30 am, Got myself ready, then was on my way to work just as I would do everyday 5 days a week. When I got to work I rode the elevator to the one-hundred and third floor and started to work.
It was a normal day in New York City, with business workers rushing into the World Trade Center. They thought it was going to be like any other day in the office but they were wrong. These office workers were in for the biggest surprise of their life. Planes flown by hijackers crashed into both the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon was hit by a plane as well. Now there is a memorial in New York where the bases of the towers were honoring the people who died that day.
Life in America after 9/11/01 was a hard time for America, many families and friends were grieving over their lost loved ones. But while all of this was happening government and important people were creating programs like the TSA.The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created to create a safer flight and safer planes so tragedies like the recent terrorist attack America went through does not happen again. Some changes they made for safer flights are the cockpit doors that pilots are controlling the plane is was turned bullet proof and stays locked at all times during the duration of the flight. Also, in the airport you must put baggage through the technology created to detect weapons or bombs that could be in anybody's luggage. Many requirement must be met at airports after 9/11, for example a specific ID is required; the ID name must math the name printed on the ticket of that person. This is probably in effect because they wouldn't want anyone on the plane that is not supposed to be there. Also, whatever thy person has on them like baggage and carry on that a person plans to bring into the plane must be checked and screened. People can fit many things into their bags so this rule is there because they would want any weapons on the plane that would lead to other people getting hurt. Lastly, there is technology that scans someone's body to check for any weapons to anything they would not like to have on the plane, but if
When 9/11/2001 occurred I was sitting in the lunch room at Good Year Elementary School in Brunswick Georgia eating lunch. My classmates and I was talking normally like we always did until one of the lunch monitors told us to be quiet. I didn’t know exactly what was going on at the time. I just knew something serious had just happened. One of my teachers told the class that a plane had hit the Twin Towers. The teachers then turn on the television as all of us watch not exactly understanding what had happen or what the cause of it was. I remember some of the teacher crying while others got on their cells phones trying to contract their families in New York City, but the lines was so busy. That whole day I remember just sitting in class watching
On September 11, 2001, I was seated in my third grade class at the age of eight years old. Every morning we had a “news” station that would automatically come on at 8:30 a.m. called Channel One News, tailored for children. However, after this five minute long news segment ended we started class. I remember commotion in the halls, and my teacher went out to see what was going on. She came back in, and immediately turned on the television that had just recently automatically shut off. There is was, a burning building, at the time I had no clue what was going
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.
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.
The morning of 9/11 I wasn’t going to go to work because I had an allergy appointment,