09/11/2021
Remembering 9/11
20 years later
For everyone that’s old enough to
remember the morning of 9/11, it’s
definitely one of those days that you
completely remember exactly where you were and what you was doing at the moment you found out that a plane struck the World Trade Center in New York City. I was on vacation that week, I woke up that morning, got my coffee and went into my den where my computer was set up. I logged onto my AOL at the time and if you are old enough to remember dial up internet, it could take a good minute or longer to log onto AOL. So once I was logged into it there was a welcome screen and it always had the important breaking news on that welcome screen. The first thing I saw on that welcome screen was the World Trade Center on fire. I said to myself this can’t be true, so I left the den and went to my living room and turned the TV on and it was all over the news. That is a moment I will never forget. That is why months later and until this day the slogan never forget has been used with our 9/11 memories.
On the morning of Tuesday Sept. 11
4 planes was used to attack our great
Country. The first plane to hit its target
was American Flight 11. It was flown into
the North Tower at the World Trade
Center at 8:46 a.m. 17 minutes later at
9:03 a.m. the second plane United
Airlines Flight 175 struck the World
Trade Center South Tower. Both 110
story towers collapsed an hour and
forty-two minutes later and also leading
to the collapse of World Trade Center
Tower 7. The third flight, American
Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west
side of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. The
fourth and final flight crashed into a
field near Shanksville Pennsylvania at
10:03 a.m. Its original target is believed
to be either the White House or the
U.S. Capitol building. Some stats from
9/11 2,977 total deaths from that day
19 hijackers committed murder-suicide
25,000 people were injured
265 people died on the 4 planes
2,606 people died in just the World
Trade Center
125 died in the Pentagon
Most of the deaths was civilians except
for the 344 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers
Out of the 2,977 people who died on 9/11
2,605 were US citizens excluding the 19
Terrorists.
As of August 2013, medical authorities
have stated that 1,140 people who
worked, lived or studied in lower
Manhattan at the time of the attacks
have been diagnosed with cancer due to
all the toxins consumed at or near ground zero.
10 pregnancies were lost as a result of
9/11. Over 1,400 rescue workers who
responded to the scene in the days and
months after the attacks have died since.
