911 (School Post #5)

Here in the United State's we do have terrorist attacks. Most of the time we have no idea when they are going to happen. It seems as if they almost happen when we are least expecting it. We will turn around and boom! Planes have been hijacked and are being crashed into the world trade center. A lot of the time, the motives of the terrorists is to get back at the U.S. for some things that we did that they didn't like. The most recent attack was about 7 years ago that happened on September 11, 2001. Two planes hit the twin towers in New York City. One also hit the pentagon. There was another plane that crashed in Pennsylvania; this one was heading towards the white house. However, the passengers caught on and took the plane back over. The tourists had weapons on them so that they could hurt the others on the plane that did not listen to them, but still the passengers stopped them. Many people lost their lives on this very sad day. Firefighters tried to help out the best they could. But some of them lost their lives in the process. (To me this is really painful because this makes me think what would happen to me if my dad lost his life (he is a fire fighter)) Now, we keep our country safe by making it harder for people to get on and off Plans. There have security everywhere and at the airports we have to walk through metal detectors and have our luggage scanned.