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The tragic suicide attacks on American soil, that happened in September 11, 2001, will be commemorated today. Nine years has passed since the incident, but the mourning continues and still well remembered by this generation as though it happened recently.
It was one of the deadliest attack by a terrorist group within American soil. A lot of people died in the attacks, the death toll ended at 2,996 which included the hijackers. Several were wounded and thousands of bodies have been missing and remain unidentified.
On that fateful day, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial planes with the intention of crashing the planes and use them as bombs (reminiscent of the kamikaze suicide pilots of the Second World War). Two of the planes were intentionally rammed into the World Trade Center twin towers reducing the structures to rubble within two hours, raining debris and damaging other buildings in the area. The third, was directed to the Pentagon, and was crashed there. And the fourth, crashed into a field apparently because some of the crew and passengers fought against the hijackers. There were no survivors from all the crashes.
Heroism abounded in the aftermath of the crashes, most came from the firefighters who at the risk of their lives pulled out injured people from the rubbles strewn by the felled towers. After months of search and rescue operations, the sites were cleared and the location of the World Trade Center designated as Ground Zero.
The event that happened that fateful day in September had an overwhelming effect on the American people. The loss of life was staggering and the repercussions even more with the government’s launching of the “war on terror”. Like the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor more than half a century before, it is a day that will live in infamy.
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