On the day of september 11th 2001 there was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the U.S. Pentagon. Since the tragic day of 2001, September 11th there have been many advancements and improvement in airport security. The events on that day showed people that there needed to be better airport security then what there was now to prevent anything like that from happening again. On the day of the September 11th terrorist attack there where two planes that crash into both of the twin tower both of them collapsed and fail. The number of fatalities was 2,753 in New York. Hijacker also crash into the pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. 184 people died in the pentagon crash 19 of the were hijackers. This is how it happened the hijackers hijacked four planes they all had intended targets to hit. The Hijackers were apart of a group of …show more content…
11, 2001, airport security was a simple stroll through a metal detector designed to thwart hijackers with guns. Then the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City came down, an act of terror that changed almost everything – including how we fly. The terrorists did not have the capacity to destroy the United States militarily, so they set their sights on places that meant alot to the United States instead. The Twin Towers, as the centerpieces of the World Trade Center, symbolized globalization and America’s economic power and prosperity. The Pentagon is the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, serves as a symbol of American military power. Today, seventeen years after the act of terrorism that forever changed the face of America, regular, everyday American citizens are no more safe than they were on that day. A terrorist regime that is willing to die in order to achieve their objective is an impossible threat to eliminate. The United States and other countries who face this problem are not at war with a place or a country; they are at war with a group which are spread out and could be