As I write this I’m thinking there are perhaps a million people in the USA who weren’t born until after the day of September 11th of 2001. It was as President Roosevelt said after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the USA into WW-2. What he said was “The unprovoked and dastardly attack by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan is a day that will live in infamy.”
On September 11th three planes were hijacked by 20 Arabs from Saudi Arabia. They headed for New York city where they flew two of those planes into the twin towers. The 3rd plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The two planes caused the towers to burst into flames, eventually killing 2977 American citizens, many of them were firefighters. Acrid smoke filled the surrounding areas. Many firefighters had lifelong lung troubles for the rest of their lives. I knew two men who worked on the 105th floor of the towers. I hope they were out sick that day, but I doubt it.
I cannot imagine the terror those who survived went through. I pray something like this will never happen again.
