The biggest terrorist event during my life was 9/11 when terrorist attacked the Twin Towers in New York. The attack of 9/11 is personal to me because my uncle was on one of the floors in building. Just waking up one morning and trying to live your life then finding out hundreds of people died in a couple of minutes is devastating. Even though America has a huge number of people dealing with security of the nation everyday there is still a slight chance of more terrorist attacks. This event devastated
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Fixing the Failures of 9/11 9/11: A Systemic Failure of the United States Government The events of September 11th‚ 2001 have had a larger impact on the United States Intelligence Community than any single event in its history. It forced the U.S. Intelligence community to look critically at their policies‚ organization‚ and how they handled business. The Joint Inquiry‚ 9/11 Commission‚ and Inspectors General found numerous deficiencies in communication‚ technological capabilities
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September 11‚ 2001‚ will be in history‚ "a day of infamy." (Sirs Research) Nothing like this has ever happened before on American soil and nothing would ever be the same again. "It was an unprecedented terrorist attack on America‚ a plot to kill as many Americans as humanly possible. Ultimately‚ it was the downing of United American Flight 11 and United FLight Airlines 175 into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001‚ that brought the two buildings down into massive clouds
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translate the message which was sent about 30 minutes before the attack. A similar attack to Pearl Harbor was the attack of 9/11 which was years after Pearl Harbor attack. The attack of 9/11 was an attack that crashed 4 suicide planes into important places in America. The first and second planes hit the World Trade Center‚ the third plane crashed into the Pentagon (September 11 Attacks
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September 11‚ crash into the beautiful twin towers in NYC. Many years before this terrorist attack‚ in December of 1941‚ a similar but as well different attack occurred. Planes struck the navy base on Pearl Harbor. Streets are full‚ people working and a plane strikes a tower in the center of New York City. Working on a navy base and planes come out unexpected with terrorists planning to destroy everything. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was definitely unexpected‚ as was the plane wrecks on 9/11; many can
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Preventing 9/11: Could it Have Been Done? September 11th‚ 2001: the American people will remember this day as the day the unthinkable happened: someone‚ or rather a group of people‚ infiltrated the seemingly impregnable American defenses and turned our own airplanes on us. Crashing several planes into different important federal buildings‚ these terrorists spread terror throughout the country. Nobody thought that the most powerful country in the world could be attacked so easily‚ and
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is to make sure that nothing like 9/11 will ever happen again. Following September 11‚ 2001‚ the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created to strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation systems and ensure the freedom of movement for people and commerce. Today‚ TSA secures the nation’s airports and screens all commercial airline passengers and baggage. This is one that people notice the most when asked‚ How has your life changed after 9/11?‚ and honestly this is the only major
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I don’t think any American can forget where they were when 9/11 happened. I was going into my history class when I learned about it. My teacher had the T.V. on even though the administration asked the teachers to turn the TV’s off. We watched it and discussed what was going on for the entire hour and a half that we were in the class. My teacher was very emotional and crying and so were some of the students. Some of the students were in shock and others were oblivious to what this meant for our country
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yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own‚and you know what you know.”What was it like before 9/11 that’s different from now and the future? When will America become a home‚ or how will America become superior? Who will change America? Why should America change? Back before 9/11‚ many people didn’t care about race‚religion‚etc. We were like one big family‚ but after 9/11‚ more people became more guarded and cantankerous. People became more judgmental amongst others. Then people
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September 11‚ 2001 was a devastating time in history. No one knew exactly what was going on whenever the news of the plane crashing into the north tower reached them‚ but the leader behind the attack‚ Osama bin Laden‚ did. This wasn’t bin Laden’s first attack‚ but it was his biggest. He’d been involved in many things before. For example‚ he was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attempted assassination of the Egyptian president in 1995. However‚ those didn’t stop him
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