9-11+DS

=Start to Iraq War=

On September 11, 2001 there were a series of coordinated suicide atacks on America from Al Qaeda. The morning of this date, 19 terrorists hijacked 4 comercial airplanes on united states soil. Two of these four planes crashed into what we know as the World Trade Centers. Everyone in the planes died and a ton of people in the buildings could not make it out alive before both of the tall buildings had crashed to the ground. one of the other planes crashed into the Pentagon Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane however did not make it to its destination, instead it had crashed in 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 Plane crash. Many brave souls died that day causing President Bush to retaliate and go to war with Iraq According to the New York State Health Department, 836 responders, including firefighters and police personnel, have died as of June 2009. Among the 2752 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center were 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority. 184 people were killed in the attacks on the Pentagon. After this had happened all of the airlines shut down in the US for a long period of time.