A Day of Terror

When the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, we had no idea that this was not just an unfortunate accident. We could not envision that this was the start of something far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined. Who could believe that this planned attack, the use of an airplane as a weapon, could do enough damage to a 110-story building to make it collapse? To watch, as innocent people, stuck in the tower above the airplanes impact actually jump out of th

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The combination of the flames and the force of the two towers collapsing actually caused two other buildings at the World Trade Center to collapse later on in the day. At this point the F-16’s were up in the air heading towards this airplane. Who would think that people in such a desperate state of mind would do the unbelievable? As if this wasn’t enough, other terrorist attacks began to unfold in other parts of the country. While most of the country had their eyes on the Twin Towers, a plane crashed into the United States Department of Defense building – the Pentagon.

As the nation watched the airplanes hit these towers within fifteen minutes of each other, two other dramas were unfolding in other parts of the United States. These innocent people gave of their lives knowingly in order to save hundreds possibly thousands of others. The unthinkable was about to happen. e tower in desperation before it collapsed, will forever be imbedded in the Americans minds.

When the plane hit the Pentagon, there was concern about an airplane that was heading to San Francisco, but had made a U-turn around Pittsburgh and appeared to be heading back to the eastern shoreline. They innocent people aboard this airplane had heard via cell phones what was going on and decided to try and take back the airplane before any other innocent lives could be lost. Hundreds of innocent people lost their lives in this tragic event. These two towers would collapse within thirty minutes of each other and thousands of innocent people would lose their lives. Unfortunately, by now, the people on board of this plane knew what had happened in New York City and knew that their plane had been hijacked.

Unfortunately, as we came to find out, this day was a day of firsts.

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