September 11, 2001 attacks

[Tesha Dodge]

_{The towers burn shortly after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower on the right. To its left is the still smoking North Tower, struck earlier by American Airlines Flight 11.}

Location New York City, US (1st & 2nd)
Arlington, US (3rd)
Shanksville, US (4th)
Target(s) World Trade Center and The Pentagon (fourth target is unknown, but suspected to be a location in Washington, D.C.; Al-Qaeda claims it was to be the United States Capitol[1]
Date Tuesday September 11, 2001
8:46 am – 10:28 am (UTC-4)
Attack type Suicide attack, Aircraft hijacking
Deaths 2,993 (including 19 terrorists)
Injured Unknown
Perpetrator(s) al Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden, see also Responsibility and Organizers on the right hand column

[Tesha Dodge]

Traditional Story:

The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced "nine eleven") consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[2] suicide attacks by Islamic extremists on that date upon the United States of America.

That morning, nineteen terrorists[3] affiliated with al-Qaeda[4] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (1 WTC and 2 WTC), resulting in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward and irreparable damage to nearby buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner (American Airlines Flight 77) into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft (United Airlines Flight 93) attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers;[5] that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. In addition to the 19 hijackers, 2,973 people died as an immediate result of the attacks, and the death of at least one person from lung disease was ruled by a medical examiner to be a result of exposure to WTC dust.[6] Another 24 people are missing and presumed dead. The victims were predominantly civilians.

[Tesha Dodge]

A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center

[HereForNow]

With (9-11) sept. 11th on our door steps as a day of rememberence, perhaps we should also remember what has transpired since that day to recap why we are living in such a different world now.

It was one of many things that changed our world since 2001.

What other cataclymic reminders of changing times can be revealed?
Katrina, Earth quakes happening more frequently, NEO's becoming more vivid and closer to Earth.
To name a few!