How To Write A Short Essay On 9/11

September 11, 2001 was a devastating time in history. No one knew exactly what was going on whenever the news of the plane crashing into the north tower reached them, but the leader behind the attack, Osama bin Laden, did. This wasn’t bin Laden’s first attack, but it was his biggest. He’d been involved in many things before. For example, he was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attempted assassination of the Egyptian president in 1995. However, those didn’t stop him from doing something as big as 9/11, killing almost 3,000 Americans. September 11 is a day no one will ever forget. Imagine this: You’re flying on a plane to go somewhere and visit your family or go on vacation when suddenly your plane is being hijacked. You’re turning around and heading to New York or Washington, D.C. Early morning on September 11, 2001, this happened to four airlines. United Airlines Flights 93 and 175 and American Airlines Flights 11 and 77. Nineteen men on these four planes, all members of a group called al-Qaeda, hijacked the planes and turned two around towards New York, one towards Washington, D.C. and one towards a destination that has never been 100% proven. At around 8:45 a.m. Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade
The cost of losing the Twin Towers and part of the Pentagon added up to about $4 billion or $5 billion dollars, and cleaning up after it took about eight months, 3 million hours of labor, and $750 million. Finding and killing Osama bin Laden took 10 years. He was finally tracked down on August 10, 2010 in a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. CIA agents watched him for months and drones took pictures of the house from the sky. On May 1, 2011, some Navy SEALs ran into the house and found bin Laden upstairs. They shot him in the head and chest, killing him instantly. That night on a public TV address, President Obama stated that “Justice has been