How Did The Twin Towers Change Society

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The twin towers were and still are a great part of United states history. Police, Firefighters,the terrorist, and the people in the towers were involved. Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a 4th plane landed in a Pennsylvania field, killing everyone on board the planes and nearly 3,000 people on the ground. The attackers were members of a group called al Qaeda, a militant, extremist Islamic organization that oppose the United States and what it stands for. The wasn’t al Qaeda’s first terrorist attack, but it was the deadliest. This happened because the trustees didn’t know how to use their heads. “2,753 people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were intentionally crashed into the north and south towers or as a result of the crashes” (Networks 1).This disaster change society by changing the way that people look at other countries and the way we look at ourselves. …show more content…
Nobody knew that it was going to happen until it happened. Everybody was getting ready for work or already at work when it happened.Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Al Qaeda was planning the