The Atlantic's Jennifer Senior explores how the family of Bobby McIlvaine struggles to make sense of his loss on the 20th anniversary of the attacks.Though she has no independent recollection of her mother, Patricia Smith has spent 20 years missing and learning about her.
That day of terror brought about changes large and small such that it is difficult to find some part of American life that hasn’t been touched by the effects of Sept. 11, 2001. From ramped-up security at airports to the militarization of policing, to years-long wars and the very fabric of our country's personality and freedoms, the nation and world have been redefined by the events of 9/11.
The war in Afghanistan spanned the administrations of four presidents and the eight-year Iraq War, only to end last month with the chaotic withdrawal of American troops and the deaths of 13 more military service members, four born the same year as 9/11. The Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan in 2001 and provided safe haven to al-Qaeda, is back in power, renewing fears the country will once again become a base for terrorism.
While it's been 10 years since Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, was gunned down by SEAL Team 6 in Abbottabad, Pakistan, no one has been convicted of helping him carry out the diabolical plot he mastermind, and only one has pleaded guilty and sentenced to life in prison. United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark International Airport in New Jersey that morning headed for San Francisco. According to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board, a team of four al-Qaeda terrorists stormed the cockpit and at 9:32 a.m. the cockpit voice recorder indicated a struggle was occurring and captured the words of someone yelling,"Get out of here."
Andy Card, then the chief of staff to President George W. Bush, was with the commander-in-chief that morning at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, to promote the White House's"No Child Left Behind" education program. Before entering a room of children, Card recalled a Navy captain approaching him and the president to say a small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, an unfortunate tragic accident they initially thought.
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NewsLive Half the kids don’t know what this even is. Most kids don’t know what the holocaust is. We are doing a poor job of teaching history in a way that is compelling. So everyone will forget and history will repeat itself. Sadly.
NewsLive Attack of NWO terrorists on own country ... Where are the WTC rubble, is anyone afraid to find traces of TNT in them ?
NewsLive I thought Jan 6 was the worst thing that has happened since the civil war I guess I would have to be a Democrat to believe that
NewsLive America kill thousands of people in Afghanistan instead of 11/9
NewsLive Spare a thought for hundreds of thousand souls who were tortured, bombed out of their homes, lost all their income and killed since then.
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