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Can someone explain to me what 9/11 really was?

I remember it happened on tv when I was in second grade. I was confused, and I had no clue what was going on. All I know was that every single tv station, even the kids tv stations were cut into an "emergency broadcast" and the footage of 9/11 where the buildings blew up were showing over and over again. I didn't know what to think.

I lived in Canada at that time, and I still do, so I'm still not sure what was going on. Just recently I've been hearing about this more and more because of the 9/11 date, and I hear that it was the government that planned this or something. Or it was the terroists from the Arab countries. Can someone explain to me what happened??

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  • 10 years ago
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    On September 11, 2001, 2,977 innocent people were killed in an act of terrorism against the United States orchastrated by Osama Bin Laden. Four commericial airliners were hijacked-two hit the Twin Towers, one crashed into the Pentagon, and one crashed was heading to the White House, but the passengers stormed the cockpit and crashed it into a field to stop anybody else from dying. Four hundred emergancy workers entered the building to try to save people they had never met before. They died heros. Two hundred jumped or fell out of windows. Everybody on the planes died.

    That day changed America. Seeing our fellow citizens slaughtered like animals provoked the War on Terror. It's one of the most significant events in history, and a heartbreaking reminder that tomorrow is never guarenteed.

  • 10 years ago

    It Was A Terrorist Attack Including Four Planes 2 Hit Our World Trade Centre And 1 Hit The Pentagon. The Other Was Hijacked But Brave People On The Plane Crashed It In Pennsylvania. Many People Died That Day.The others Were Trying To Destroy our Economy,Government,And Freedom, But They Did Not Succeed. To This Day It Is Still Devastating To The Lives That Were Lost. The World Trade Centre Now Is Being Rebuilt. And There is Now A Memorial for The Crah In Pennsylvania And In New York City. On September 11,2001 Smoke and Debris And Ash From The Buildings Collasping Killed Others That Were Never In The Buildings. That Day Will Always Be Remembered.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Crazy people flew two airplanes into the twin towers, somehow a steel frame building made for events like this collapsed like a demolition video. Oh yeah and there were also explosions going on everywhere around the trade center after the planes crashed(before the towers fell)..but apparently to the gov't said it was from the planes.....WTF?

    Somehow the buildings around the trade center collapsed like a demolition but Americans believe that the plane crashes way up high caused those explosions that sounded like bombs..

    Oh yeah and the gov't told everyone that 9/11 was caused by a random attack and that America is completely innocent and never deserved the attacks. The gov't had nothing to do with it but apparently a group of foreigners managed to pull ALL this off, plus the pentagon attack that didnt make sense but the gov't told us the truth =)

    Source(s): SARCASM lmao
  • 10 years ago

    On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the group Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes with mace and boxcutters, and stabbed the pilots and took control. In a kamikaze-style suicide attack, they then flew two planes into both towers of the World Trade Center, two very tall skyscrapers in New York City. The buildings later collapsed, damaging a good portion of Lower Manhattan. Another plane was rammed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States military. The last plane's target was the White House, but passengers and crew rose up and attacked their hijackers, and as a result, the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania farmfield.

    Almost 3,000 people, including my grandfather, were killed.

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  • Nico
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    10 years ago

    9/11 happened due to the US meddling in the affairs of foreign countries and due to the grinding poverty around the world. Hijackers from Saudi Arabia commandeered 4 planes and flew them into the 2 World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon and one was foiled by the passengers and flown into the ground in Pennsylvania (it was headed to the White House). Then in 2003, the US went to war with Afghanistan and Iraq: Iraq had nothing to do with it and Afghanistan was so poor that the Taliban and Al Qaeda could set up shop there and not be bothered too much. Most people in Afghanistan don't even know about what happened on 9/11. If you believe some conspiracies, the US allowed this to happen because Bush wanted to avenge his father for the 1st Gulf War and they wanted to usher in a huge change in our freedoms and civil liberties. The Bush administration ignored warnings from the Clinton administration and many FBI agents who said something was wrong with people wanting to learn to fly, but not wanting to learn how to take off or land.

    Google it and read about it, it's way too complicated to explain.

  • 10 years ago

    On Tuesday September 11th, 2001, 19 Members of Al-Queda (A terrorist group) hijacked 4 airplanes, 2 of them hit the world trade center, 1 hit the pentagon, and 1 (flight 93) hit a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. People think that the target of flight 93 was the Capital or the White House, but passengers on the plane stormed the cock pit and took control of the plain causing it to crash into a field, saving hundreds, if not thousands of lives. The entire tragedy killed over 3,000 people, about 400 FDNY and about 300 NYPD, and thousands of civilians that where working in the World trade centers, and the pentagon. Everyone in the Planes Died. After the 2 twin towers where hit they later collapsed.

  • 10 years ago

    Check out this video on YouTube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28QukKjwLtI&feature...

    It tells you everything about 9/11 and then some, the truth. Our goverment self inflicted wound. Its quite intersting even if you dont believe the goverment was behind it it tells you everything that happened then the conspiracy side.

    Source(s): Loose change 9/11
  • 10 years ago

    a bunch of crazy terrorists sent a plane into the twin towers, end of story.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Are you kidding? Read, man, read.

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