8 YEARS SINCE SEPTEMBER 11
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2009 15:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It has been eight years since the simple date
September 11 became an horrific watershed moment for the United States
and the rest of the world.
This year the annual commemoration of the attacks in the US
has been given a new name – the National Day of Service and
Remembrance. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have called
on Americans to carry out community service as a way of honoring
"the heroes of that dark day".
The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks
by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda
terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The
hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin
Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone
on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings
collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging
others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in
Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane
crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania, after
some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control
of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington,
D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.