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Editor's note: We're resurfacing this column from teacher Annie Thoms for the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. On Sept. 11, 2001, Thoms had just started the school year at her alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, which is located four blocks from Ground Zero.

I was 25 on September 11, 2001, beginning my second full year of teaching at Stuyvesant High School. On that morning, I emerged from the subway station to see Chambers Street filled with people, all looking up. I looked up too. Both towers of the World Trade Center were on fire, smoke billowing from the gashes left by the two airplanes which had crashed into them minutes before. From those gashes flew swirls of paper, and small black objects fell from the windows. After a moment, I realized that the small black objects were people. I caught my breath and turned down the hill, toward school.

Moments from that morning are burned into my memory: The way the building shook as the first tower fell. Meeting my freshman homeroom in the cafeteria, one girl crying beneath her hijab; two other girls who had met only days earlier trying to comfort her. Walking down the stairs as if for a fire drill, understanding for the first time the purpose of fire drills, feeling oddly normal even as one of my colleagues yelled, "This is not a drill! This is a real emergency!" Walking north on the West Side Highway, watching students disperse in small groups. Looking back at one point to realize that the second tower had fallen.

I was deeply aware in those moments - I think we all were - that the world had changed irrevocably. It is a strange thing to know this at the moment it is happening.

In the months following the attacks, I worked with a small group of students to create and perform the play, "with their eyes." Ten student actors interviewed 23 members of the Stuyvesant community - students, faculty, and staff - recorded, transcribed, and edited the interviews, and performed them in the character of the interviewees. Each interview-based monologue used the actual words and speech patterns of the interviewee, complete with pauses, "likes" and "ums."
What it was like to watch the 9/11 attacks from your classroom window
The play was a patchwork of individual experiences: a senior who had to move out of his apartment near ground zero, furious at the tourists who came to take pictures of the site; a pregnant English teacher; a security guard who saw his life flash before his eyes; a Muslim student worried about racial profiling. The power of the play came from the ways these individual stories spoke to each other, complicating the narrative of our common experience rather than reducing it to sound bites.

As I do every year, I will hope for cloudy skies, not the clear blue I remember from the day of the attacks.

"With their eyes" was performed at Stuyvesant in February 2002, and published as a book by HarperCollins in September of that year. The creation of the play, the life of the book, and the experience of teaching in the same place in the years since, have taught me many lessons over the last 15 years.

I learned that when students are invited to bring their own experiences into their work and entrusted with creative freedom, they are capable of extraordinary things.

I learned that diversity of voices matters. The student director and producers and I made a conscious effort to cast students from all four grades, representative of the racial and ethnic diversity of the school. We chose a diverse group of interviewees, including staff members. Through the creation of the play, we heard, and were able to share stories we might easily have missed. We grew friendships we might never have made. We came to understand our community more fully by seeking out stories we did not already know.

I learned that individual stories have the power to connect across geographic distance. "With their eyes" has been produced at high schools from Kansas to Florida, from Washington to South Dakota, and by two repertory companies in California and Missouri. Students have written to me about the bond they feel with the interviewees they chose to portray, and how that bond helped them understand the events of September 11 in a far more personal way. The specificity of a single person's experience can forge a stronger connection than any broad generalization.

I was deeply aware in those moments - I think we all were - that the world had changed irrevocably.

I learned how quickly experience can become history. Students in my classes remembered September 11 as high-schoolers; then as middle-schoolers; as grade-schoolers; then, only through their parents' stories. Ten years later, the experience was already a generation removed.

Most importantly, I learned that everybody has a story to tell. All you need to do is ask, and listen.

I will return to Stuyvesant this week, as many of my colleagues on the faculty and staff do every year, with the memory of that morning in September 2001 still fresh in our minds. I will be grateful that this year's anniversary falls on a weekend rather than a school day. As I do every year, I will hope for cloudy skies, not the clear blue I remember from the day of the attacks. I will plan, and teach, and grade, and look for ways to get to know my students' stories this year, to keep history in mind while striving to understand our community as it is now.

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Editor's note: We're resurfacing this column from teacher Annie Thoms for the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. On Sept. 11, 2001, Thoms had just started the school year at her alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, which is located four blocks from Ground Zero.

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Annie Thoms was 25 and just starting her second year teaching English at Stuyvesant High School, which is located just four blocks from Ground Zero. The students and faculty watched as tragedy unfolded around them.

Although the school was not structurally damaged, classes were moved temporarily so the campus could be used as a center for rescue and recovery operations. Thoms instinctively knew that she and her students needed to make art from what they had experienced. She began working with 13 young actors and directors to create a play that was based on interviews with Stuyvesant students, faculty and staff. Those interviews captured what it was like to witness the nation's worst act of terrorism and the emotions that followed.
Column: I was there on 9/11. Now it's a history lesson that I teach
"I was trying to model the kind of work that Anna Deavere Smith does, which is such a powerful form, because it's oral history, journalism and poetry all wrapped up together," Thoms said.

Over a two-month period, the students conducted interviews with people of all ages and races, including students, faculty, janitors and secretaries.

"It was an exercise in asking open-ended questions and then really listening to what people had to say. That's a different kind of listening, and the students felt a real responsibility to portray that person very accurately."

After the interviews were conducted, the students pored over the recordings and decided which portions to put down on paper, in what order and how to best represent each person's speech using spacing and line breaks.

"It was something they took incredibly seriously, how to communicate on paper what the person's voice should sound like," Thoms said.

The result was a play-length poem of monologues called "With Their Eyes: September 11th-The View from a High School at Ground Zero." It was published by Harper Collins and has been performed by schools and repertory theaters throughout the country.

Thoms has been gratified by the response and has attended several of the productions. She adds with a laugh, "It's been funny to see that some people across the country think that all New Yorkers sound like characters on "The Sopranos."

Fifteen years later, Thoms is still teaching at Stuyvesant, while the students who wrote the play have scattered across the country. Some are doctors and lawyers, several are now parents. But every year, many of them gather together for a reunion to remember that awful day and the play that they created together.

Thoms thinks the work has had such resonance, because it documents the event with such complexity.

"Normally, when we think about history, we get single points of view. But what is great about this monologue project is that it opens the door to a wide variety of complex reactions. It shows there's not just one way to react or one way to come back to normal. There's a rich tapestry of emotion."
From "With Their Eyes: September 11th-The View from a High School at Ground Zero."
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Kevin Zhang, sophomore
I saw this

huge plane it was...

it looked much bigger than the first one,

it just,

it looked like one of those jets, you know, in the movies,

you know, Air Force One or something, one of those big jets.

It was one of those and it just hits -

It hit the building right there.
Katherine Fletcher, English teacher
I noticed it enough to say to my class

what was that

sort of casually

I wasn't scared or alarmed I just sort of said what

was that

and someone said

thunder

and I was like no

it's not thunder

it must have been a truck

it was like the sound of a truck like hitting something on a street or

you know how sometimes you'll hear something like that.
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Juan Carlos Lopez, School Safety Agent
I got this weird transmission

the strangest transmission in my life

that a plane hit the World Trade Center

and I ran into the computer room to see.

I haven't gotten back into that office.

The recollection of what I saw is framed in that window,

like if I had to draw you a picture I would

have to draw the window frame as well.

I'm a little apprehensive,

just looking at these banners I get a little choked up.

So I - I fear going into that office

I might lose my composure.

But it's been long enough that maybe I could go into that office

and take it in

but I, I -

you know in a way I don't feel ready, I don't.
Katie Berringer, freshman
We didn't know what was going on

so when we see this like

psycopathic lady running down the hallway

like "I need to call my mother, I need to call my mother!"

and we're like

What is wrong with HER?

and we didn't know what was going on so we were like

laughing at her.

But then we heard that thing on the speakers

but we still thought it was like

tiny and they were telling us out of respect

like when that guy died

and everyone had a moment of silence.

We thought it was something like that -

but I saw my friend and he was telling me

like about all those things he was seeing out the windows

and I was like holy shit

this is big.
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There were students who came into my office to use the phone

to touch base with their parents

to see if they were okay...

and there were actually many of them crowded into my room

and the electricity went out

momentarily and the lights started flickering and everyone screamed

and dropped to the floor, frightened.

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This Saturday, we mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The events of that day and the resulting U.S. policy decisions had an impact in the United States and around the world, including for many of us now working at the Center for American Progress. For some, the course or nature of our lives changed because of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. This includes those who served or were called to serve, those targeted for discrimination based on the ensuing rise of Islamophobia, and others whose career trajectories were shaped by the events of that day.

To mark this anniversary, we've collected a diverse set of reflections from CAP staff and fellows.

Gordon Gray, Chief Operating Officer
The following is an excerpt from "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project" by retired Ambassador Gordon Gray:

I ended my first week [as the director of the State Department's Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs] at the end of the month, August 31st, which was a Friday, with news that Prince Turki [al-Faisal] who was the long-standing head of GID, the General Intelligence Directorate, had resigned; he subsequently served as the Saudi ambassador to the United States. He had been in the GID position for so long, and he worked so closely with the United States, that it was a very interesting development. We were of course trying to divine the reasons behind it. The hoped-for political analysis was overtaken by events because on Tuesday morning, September 11th, the first plane went into the Twin Towers, and then the second one did. Just like all other Americans, I remember very vividly where I was and what I was doing. We had a television in our office tuned to the news channel, and we saw the terrible events unfold. I remember one of my colleagues saying that he hoped it wasn't terrorism and that he hoped it wasn't [Osama] bin Laden. I knew it was bin Laden and al-Qaeda because they liked to do operations in pairs, just as they had done in the East Africa bombings; there wasn't any question in my mind or the minds of many others as well.

Sharita Gruberg, Vice President for the LGBTQ Research and Communications Project

I was a junior in high school and remember watching the TV in horror with the rest of my class. Later that day during class change, a friend on the football team ran up to me and instructed me to get him or his teammates if anyone went after me for being Muslim. I felt the pit of my stomach drop again that day realizing I wouldn't be able to just grieve as an American but would also have to face anti-Muslim bigotry holding myself, my family, and my community collectively responsible. The following years have been filled with surveillance, profiling, deportations, and increasing Islamophobia.

Mara Rudman, Executive Vice President for Policy

I was eight months out of my position as a deputy national security adviser for President Bill Clinton and had just started working at The Cohen Group, a consultancy formed by former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen. We were in our morning staff meeting when the initial media reports came in; and from there, we started hearing directly from colleagues at the Pentagon and were fielding calls from the Hill, even as everyone was in lockdown mode. I recall family of some of my work colleagues arriving in our office concerned about finding a safe space and a very uncertain trek home later that day. In the same time frame, Sen. Tom Daschle's then-foreign policy adviser shared a draft war powers authorization and asked for review and comments, which I shared, about thoughts on what to adjust in the language and why. A few weeks later, I saw Gen. Hugh Shelton, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-who had also served in that capacity for President Clinton-and recall hearing from him directly about what faced him that day.

Larry Korb, Senior Fellow for National Security and International Policy

Having been born and raised in New York City and working in the city on 9/11 at the Council on Foreign Relations, I have several recollections from that horrible day. But these stand out: First, the criticisms I faced, particularly from right-wing media hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, when I defended President Clinton's attempt to kill Osama bin Laden in 1998 because he was a real threat to our security, rather than a ploy to distract us from impeachment; second, the failure of the incoming Bush administration to focus on the threat from al-Qaida; third, the unwillingness of the Bush administration to appreciate the role Iran played in helping us topple al-Qaida and the Taliban and in forming a new government. Shortly after 9/11, the Iranians, who were the first country to condemn the attacks, invited me and several colleagues to the residence of their U.N. ambassador to tell us we needed to inform the Bush administration that they were willing to help-which we did. Despite this help in early 2002, Bush turned them against us by putting them on the "axis of evil."

Kelly Kryc, Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment
The following is an excerpt from "Remembering 9/11: Looking Back 10 Years, It's Still Personal" by Rudy deLeon:
I was a Ph.D. student at Boston University in 2001. On September 11, I was attending a science conference in Erice, Sicily, and observed the events unfold from afar. It was difficult to get information about loved ones at home. None of us knew how or when we would be able to return to the United States. Despite this, we all felt comparatively safe, which was not the experience my friends and family had. After the conference, I decided to travel solo to Tuscany while waiting to hear when flights would resume-and also making longer-term arrangements with friends studying in the United Kingdom to stay there indefinitely. The outpouring of compassion and warmth from the Italians was like nothing I'd ever experienced while traveling abroad (and haven't experienced since). People approached me on the street to express their shock and sadness, invited me to join their tables at dinner so that I wouldn't be alone, and even invited me into their homes. There was an outpouring of love and empathy that I feel fortunate to have been the recipient of. I'll always be grateful to the Italians for making that time just a little better in the face of so much uncertainty and fear.

Rudy deLeon, Senior Fellow for National Security and International Policy

In April 2001 I completed a 26-year federal career, with the last eight years and 100 days in the Pentagon working for President Bill Clinton and his administration. ... Five months later, on September 11, 2001, I had just started a new job at The Boeing Company. At 9:30 a.m. my schedule had me picking up a colleague at a Pentagon City hotel. The hotel, part of an urban shopping mall built in the mid-1980s, is probably 300 yards from the southern side of the Pentagon building, with the major highway I-395 in between.

At 9:37 a.m. I stepped out of the car to greet my colleague, but turned instead to the sound of a low-flying aircraft. My first reaction was that a military fly-over of Arlington National Cemetery was about to occur. Instead, there was an immediate sound and flash. The sound was that of a pot falling off a stove and onto the floor-that was the aluminum aircraft hitting the Pentagon concrete. The flash was the ignition of the fuel from the plane, producing an orange ball that extended several hundred feet upward from the southwest face of the Pentagon. Aviation fuel does not explode, it combusts.

Within seconds, we were standing in front of the Macy's and moving toward a walkway-tunnel that is normally used by Pentagon workers, visitors, and joggers. Exiting, we emerged in the south parking lot of the Pentagon, greeted by the fireball that is now black smoke and the sirens of the Arlington County Fire Department. Construction workers in the parking lot pointed to the route of the commercial aircraft down Columbia Pike and into the building.

Just like that, America had changed.

Maggie Siddiqi, Senior Director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative

Since the 9/11 attacks, we have seen cycles of backlash against Americans who are Muslim, Sikh, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian. I saw this firsthand when working at the Islamic Society of North America's D.C. office around the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Right-wing activists protested in front of mosques and advocated for "anti-Sharia" bills that would criminalize Islamic prayer and other acts of worship. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) held hearings to investigate our community writ large.
Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Air University, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any other U.S. government agency.
In the years since, we have continued to be targeted-by policies such as President Donald Trump's Muslim ban and by rising white supremacist violence. Twenty years after 9/11, we ought to be clear-eyed that hate is never justified in the aftermath of a tragic event, nor does it simply dissipate with time; it is cyclical and fomented for political gain by right-wing fearmongers. As we mourn the lives lost to hate on 9/11, we must honor their memories by preventing anyone else from facing hate in their name.
The following is an excerpt from "9/11 at 10: A Long Walk Home" by Elisa Massimino:
Steve Albert, Fellow for National Security and International Policy

I was a high school freshman when my teacher's cellphone rang with news I will never forget: A plane had struck the World Trade Center. As I watched history unfold, the gravity of the events sunk in, but I did not fully appreciate the impact 9/11 would have on my life. After college, I joined the military, deploying four times and spending more than 500 days in combat seeking out those responsible for these atrocities.

Today, my two daughters and the most-junior members of our armed forces have one thing in common: They only know a post-9/11 world. As we reflect on the past 20 years, it is our obligation, our duty, to share the memory of those who were lost on that day and in the years that followed, along with the ideals of freedom and justice they fought to uphold.

Elisa Massimino, Senior Fellow for National Security and International Policy

Several days [after 9/11], I was part of a standing-room-only crowd gathered at the Stewart Mott House across from the Supreme Court. Groups as diverse as Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum and Norman Lear's People for the American Way had come together in an emergency session to mourn the loss of life, call for unity, and urge fidelity to the values of human rights and civil liberties on which the country was founded, and from which we knew there would be strong temptation to stray. As our nation's leaders grappled with how to respond to the attacks, this ad hoc group quickly unified behind a statement of principles we urged the government-and the American people-to embrace.

[W]e are still dealing with the consequences of the failure to adhere to these principles. ... One of the tragedies of [the post-9/11 period] is that so much of what was done in the name of fighting terrorism actually exacerbated it.

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, Fellow for the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative

I was in my 6th grade World Cultures class when the 9/11 attacks happened, and it was the world event that shaped my understanding of the United States' place in the world. My first involvement in faith-based organizing and activism was during the anti-war movement after 9/11. Even at a young age, I couldn't fathom how former President George W. Bush-also a member of the United Methodist Church, which teaches that war is "incompatible with the teachings and example of Christ"-could betray our values by starting not just one but two wars that have dragged on for the majority of my life. Watching religious leaders confront the president inspired me to pursue a career at the intersection of faith and public policy.

Zahir Rasheed, Research and Press Assistant

I was 4 when the towers went down, so I don't remember much from that day. What I do remember is growing up in the shadow of 9/11 for the past 20 years as a young Muslim American, constantly being asked to explain or apologize for terrorist acts committed by those who hijacked and twisted my religion for their pursuit of political power. I remember middle school classmates in 2011 taunting me about my "dad's" death following the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, as if I could somehow share any relation or empathy with someone who was responsible for such widespread human loss and suffering.

Now, 20 years later, terror has taken on a different form, as we saw on January 6, but has not been met with the same scrutiny. Many responsible for perpetuating the environment I faced have instead created an environment in support of the rhetoric and goals of domestic terrorist actors and those willing to use them for political gain. Hate has no home here, no matter what form it takes.

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Personal Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

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This Saturday, we mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The events of that day and the resulting U.S. policy decisions had an impact in the United States and around the world, including for many of us now working at the Center for American Progress.

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Why the terrorists attack the Towers?

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It’s an attack terrorist. A plane explosed on the twins towers

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It did a lot of death in several building next to the twin tower too

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The Construction of One World Trade Center | History

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what happened after the attack ?

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There was an attack on the Twin Towers. Tow airplanes crashed on them.

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The attack kills people

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9/11 : PEOPLE'S REACTIONS / FEELINGS (VOCABULARY PRACTICE)

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ORAL STORIES  (PART 2) NOTE-TAKING FORM  

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ORAL STORIES  (PART 2) NOTE-TAKING FORM  

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How terrorists did take the control of the airplanes ?

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I know that a day exist every year to remember this tragic day.

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I think there were 3k victims

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9/11 : INTERVIEWING SURVIVORS (SIMPLE PAST VS PAST CONTINUOUS)

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What are the consequences of this attack ?

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It was a terrorist attack, two planes crashed on the Twin Towers.

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Some people keep dying because of the attack nowadays because they inhaled toxic dust when the Towers were destroyed

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how many victims?

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The terrorists' targets were important american locations (The Twin Towers, the Pentagone and the White Housse)

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I think know that this attack kills 3000 people

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HOW TO LOCATE ELEMENTS ON A PICTURE student

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What was the reaction of the countries ?

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Some people didn't think it was a terrorist attack until the second plane crashed

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2 planes crashed in Twin Towers and 1 in Pentagon

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A COMMEMORATIVE TATTOO PICTURE ANALYSIS 

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How did the passengers stop the 4th plane from crashing into the White House ?

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It's a terrorist attack witch two plane krached in the twin towers

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I think I know that it killed approximately 2800
And more than a thousands are still not identified

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What did the president do in retaliation the attack?

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It created a panic

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Only one attack failed.

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Do the USA respond to this attack ?

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It was terrorist attacks on twin towers, two airplanes crashed.

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I think that there are survivors from this day.

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I want to know how The world reacted after this attack

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9/11 was a turning point in a US history.

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I think there is a lot of victims.

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How do they keep planes

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I know it’s a plane attack targeting the twin towers and it’s over on 11th september of 2001

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There were a lots of deaths.

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Why did they do that ?

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The 11 of september, a terrorist attack touched New York City, two planes touched Twin Towers

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The pentagon wasn’t completely destructed

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I want to know how they could take control of the planes. And how they prepared their attacks