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Project 1 Essay about a Major Event

in the World´s History


October 6, 2023

Cesar Ariciaga Zavala

Regina Serrano Pérez

Valeria Zavaleta Soto

Teacher: Gallegos Peleaz Maria Irma

ENGLISH VI

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Introduction

On September 11, 2001, 2,977 people were killed in the deadliest terrorist attacks in
American history. The moment shocked the nation. Two planes, hijacked by Islamic
jihadists vowing death to all Americans, plowed into both towers at the World Trade
Center in New York. Another plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A
fourth plane, presumably headed for the White House or the U.S. Capitol, was
heroically diverted by passengers and ended up crashing in an empty field in
Pennsylvania. After reports of the first plane hitting the North Tower, millions watched
the second plane hit the South Tower on live television.

It was a terrifying, startling, and humbling event for the country. The 9/11 attacks were
the deadliest on American soil. The attacks in New York occurred in the country’s
busiest city on a busy workday. And the staggered nature of the attacks meant that news
footage captured almost everything as it happened, ensuring that millions of Americans
saw the events precisely as they unfolded.

The September 11 attacks


For many, September 11, 2001, marks a new stage in international politics. For others,
this change began with what is known as the Post Cold War.
It all started at 8:46 a.m, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on
September 11, 2001, crashing two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade
Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth
plane crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result, thousands of innocent people from more
than 80 countries lost their lives.
According to official figures, a total of 2,977 people lost their lives in the terrorist attack
of September 11, of which, 2,753 victims belong to the city of New York.

The United States response after the attack led to a new type of war, one in which the
enemy is no longer a nation-state.
Days later, a group of forces, which had the support of the United Kingdom, began
bombing targets of Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime, which at that time was taking
refuge in Afghanistan.

The 9/11 was horrible even for the people that only saw the incident miles away:

Sean Borger was one of the few people at the pentagon who saw the plane coming:

"I just looked up and, you know, a plane was flying directly at us," he said.

"I just couldn't believe something that big could be flying that low and flying directly at
us," he reiterated.
Boger was in the control tower for the Pentagon’s helipas when he saw the plane.
He said when the plane hit, it sounded “like someone sawing metal, so you can hear the
medal grinding through the concrete.”

Bruno Delinger is a survivor from an office on the 47tg floor of the North Tower:
“I was not panicked whatsoever. I was unaware of what's going on. There was no alarm.
No call to evacuate the building. And suddenly, I felt the urge to go.”
Bruno say that when he was going down stair there was a lot of very badly injured
people “No skin, no hair, just burn. And they were walking or carried down by people,
helped by people.”
When he finally reach the street, he said was a darkness in the streets
“The smoke was very, very black against this beautiful sky, and they were big.
Suddenly, darkness fell upon us with an unbelievable violence. I looked around a
second time. I didn't see the tower. Instead, I heard a sound that today, I cannot
remember. It was so powerful, such a huge sound that I blocked it. It scared me to
death, and I cannot bring it back.”
“So after this unbelievable sound of the building collapsing, everything in few seconds
turned to be darker than night with no sound, and you couldn't breathe. I was convinced
I was dead, because it's so big that your brain cannot process something like this.”

In our conlusion the most horrible attack in American history was the 9/11 this moment
shocked the nation. Two planes, hijacked by Islamic jihadists vowing death to all
Americans, plowed into both towers at the World Trade Center in New York. Another
plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Unfortunatly it was a catastrophic and the survivors are fraude of these to happend
again.

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Height, Memorial, & Facts. Encyclopedia

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Martin, D. (2021, 12 septiembre). Three witnesses to the September 11 attack at the

Pentagon tell their stories. CBS News.

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Oral Histories | National September 11 Memorial & Museum. (s. f.).

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