9/11

By Alexzandrea Wills

What happened during 9/11?

9/11

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The World trade center was crashed into.

The Pentagon was crashed into.

A plane, aiming for the White house, crashed 20 miles before reaching it.

The Twin Towers/ The world Trade center

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The first plane was American flight 11, highjacked by 5 hijackers. 11 Crew members and 76 passengers were on this plane. Flight 11 crashed into the North tower at 8:45 am.

About 20 minutes later at 9:06 am a second plane hit the South tower. This plane was hijacked by 5 hijackers. On this plane was 9 crew and 51 passengers.

At 10:00 am the South tower collapsed trapping hundreds of rescuers in addition trapping perhaps thousands of workers in the building.

Almost 30 minutes later at 10:29 the North tower collapsed, crushing rescuers below.

"The cloud of debris and dust came in our apartment." Janette Mackinlay, lower Manhattan resident.

The Pentagon and The White House

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At 9:37 am American airline, flight77, hijacked by five hijackers crashed into the Pentagon, there was 53 passengers and 6 crew members on this plane. This crash started a fire killing 125 military and civilians on the ground. At 10:15 the Pentagon collapsed.

Flight 93 was hijacked by 4 hijackers who were aiming to hit the Whit House. 33 passengers and 7 crew members saved the White House by storming the cockpit. Flight 93 crashed at 10:03, 3 minutes after the South tower collapsed, 20 minutes from Washington D.C. No one survived the crash but doing what they did, they saved many lives.

"At first I thought I'd blown up the fax machine...and then I realized that it wasn't me. I smelled jet fuel." Louise Rogers, a civilian accountant working for the U.S. Army in the Pentagon.

"Mark, this is your mom... The news is that it's been hijacked by terrorists." Alice Hoagland, mother of Flight 93 victim Mark Bingham, leaves a voicemail message for her son advising him to try to help overpower the hijackers.

A girls father

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Caitlin Leavey lost her dad during 9/11. He was a Firefighter and ran into the South tower trying to save as many people as possible, he sadly died that day in the towers collapse.

Caitlin Leavey was in her second week of 5th grade, there were mumbles of something happening to the towers but no one really knew what was going on. Caitlin's dad usually picks her up from school but wasn’t there that day.

When she got home her mom told her that the Twin Towers had been attacked and her dad had gone there to help. She never got to know what truly happened but much later her and her family were told that he had sent a radio message at 9:56 am on September 11, he was fighting a fire on the 78th floor and just three minutes later the tower collapsed.

"I remember only bits and pieces, like my mom calling hospitals all over New York City, hoping to find my dad. Two days later, she told me that he was probably gone." Caitlin Leavey

The aftermath

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It took eight months and 19 days to clean up the Twin Towers. 1.8 million tons of debris removed (108,342 truckloads), 3.1 million hours of labor spent on cleanup.

"The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 resulted in the largest loss of life by a foreign attack on American soil." https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-911 11 Facts About 9/11Get the facts about 9/11. As the single largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil, 9/11 was a national disaster that you need to be...DoSomething.org

2,823 people were killed but they were not able to identify them all, 1,102 victims were identified. Only 18 people were saved from the rubble at the Twin Towers.

9/11 changed security at airports. Before 9/11 you could easily and quickly get through security, now there are many more things you must do. Taking off shoes, all baggage is checked, and you have to do a body scan to make sure nothing is on you.

“Twin Terrors.” TIME Magazine, vol. 158, no. 11, Sept. 2001, p. 32. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=mih&AN=5160024&site=ehost-live.Leavey, Caitlin, and Joe Bubar. “My Dad: A 9/11 Hero.” Scholastic News -- Edition 5/6, vol. 86, no. 2, Sept. 2017, p. 6. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prh&AN=125077502&site=ehost-live.“9/11 Interactive Timelines.” 9/11 Memorial Timeline, 9/11 Memorial and Museum, 11 Sept. 2001, https://timeline.911memorial.org/#FrontPage.

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“9/11 Interactive Timelines.” 9/11 Memorial Timeline, 9/11 Memorial and Museum, 11 Sept. 2001, https://timeline.911memorial.org/#FrontPage. “11 Facts about 9/11.” DoSomething.org, https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-911. Written by Janet Bednarek, Professor of History. “An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be.” World Economic Forum, Janet Bednarek, 8 Sept. 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/how-9-11-transformed-airport-security/.

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