The United States encountered the primary demonstration of war on American soil that took a huge number of blameless regular civilian lives 14 years ago in 2001. Since then, America has lived in fear and made compensations to guarantee the wellbeing of this generation and the following. Although, many people are still uninformed of the price that the Americans have paid to do as such thing. Many of these people are also clueless of what might have happened to pushed such individuals to do something as horrible as the 9/11 attacks. As George Santayana once said “ Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” To truly shield this country from another occasion such as the 9/11 attacks, …show more content…
In any case, only a few know the real reason of why Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group presented such a shocking demonstration of war. The beginning of the thinking behind 9/11 could be traced back to 1951, when the United States consented to support Israel in their finance related emergency because of the increase of Jewish immigrants into their country ( " 9/11: Cause and Effect? “ ) . “ In 1951, Congress voted to help Israel cope with the economic burdens imposed by the influx of Jewish refugees from the displaced persons camps in Europe and from the ghettos of the Arab countries. ” ( “ United States Foreign Aid To Israel: History and Overview ” 1). The concentration camps and ghettos of World War II still have a major influence in America today. Because of the Jewish population count being after World War II, they needed to relocate to new territories on the same continent. Israel was a major area for refugees to restart and move forward in their lives. With all of the Jewish refugees immigrating into Israel, this had an unexpected financial toll on …show more content…
This was the initial step into the extraordinary measures that America now takes to guarantee the security of many millions of Americans citizens who take commercial airplanes all throughout the nation. Yet, President Clinton and all of the American citizens would soon come to find out that despite everything it was not enough to keep America safe from the attacks that happened in 2001. American Airlines Flight 11 collided with World Trade Center North Tower at 8:46 am on September 11th, 2001, killing everybody on that flight. This began the darkest day in America, today. At first look, most of New York’s citizens and television viewers thought that it was only a terrible accident. United Airlines Flight 175 collided with the South Tower 17 minutes later, this was when they all knew that the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center was not an accident. With everybody left in wonder and disbelief, Americans were still trying to comprehend what could have happened to bring about a tragic situation such as this. Terrorism was such a remote thought to Americans that they would have never suspected that something like this would ever happen in their beloved