One World Trade Center, New York City
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under
attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims
were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, business men and
women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and
neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable
acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires
burning, huge -- huge structures collapsing have filled us with
disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of
mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and
retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has
been moved to defend a great nation.” - U.S. President George W. Bush
One World Trade Center under constructions as seen in 2014
from the Westin Hotel window in Newport Jersey City, NJ
It’s been 15 years since the most devastating attack to hit U.S. soil on September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died in the assault, which was orchestrated by the cowardly al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four passenger airplanes and crashed them into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Virginia, and a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
All I ever needed to know about islam
I learned in five minutes on 9/11.
- Quote from Conservative Infidel website
For many people born after 9/11 the events of that day are just history, but those who witnessed the attacks in person or on television will never forget that day. The attacks touched so many people and changed the way we live and see the world today. And while people across the Middle East celebrated the attacks, some of us became New Yorkers.
September 11 is also an anniversary of a 2012 terrorist attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya where four lives were lost. The former Secretary of State still did not take the responsibility of her inaction on that day...