September 11
September 11 On Tuesday, September 11,2001 the unthinkable happened in America. The World Trade Centers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C were struck by airplanes that were hijacked by terrorists. This terrible tragedy killing many people had deep impact on the whole American citizens are grief stricken, left in fear, and full of revenge to the people who committed such an awful thing. September 11,2001 is the most tragic hour in the history of the United Sets, this terror attack was called a second Pearl Harbor. It was the deadliest assault on the United States in its history. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended. The attacks involved four synchronized plan hijackings, two from Boston, on from Newark and one from Dulles International Airport in Washington. The planes crashed within 90 minutes one after another. The responsibility for the attacks were placed on Osama Bin Laden, the exiled Saudi millionaire indicted in the U.S in charges of masterminding the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. He is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, with the help from the Taliban Afghanistan Islamic organization. The attack began at 8:51 a.m. When one of the hijacked planes slammed into the first World Trade Center, one of the New York mightiest symbols. As hundreds of sirens wailed through the city towards the burning tower, some of the center’s 50,000 workers could be seen falling from the windows of the skyscraper. They included a man and a woman holding hands. They were alive, over could see them screaming, falling and falling in the air. It was a horrible scene. Then the next plane hit Tower 2, shortly after 9 a.m., and, in an instant changed the way New York and the nation view its famous sense of invincibility. With thousands of workers still in the second World Trade Center, the plane pierced the tower like a bullet, leaving a huge, fiery exit wound on the back side. About 10:30 a.m., the top of the second World Trade Center
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