Does that look familiar to you? It's been a decade since the terrorist attack happened on 2001/09/11.
8:46AM - The North World Trade Centre Tower was struck
9:03AM - The South World Trade Centre Tower was struck
9:37AM - The airplane landed in Pentagon, Washington
10:03AM - The airplane crashed into Shankville, Pennsylvania
Many around United States and worldwide paid tribute to the victims that had their lives taken away in the three attacks in New York (lower Manhattan), Washington and also Pennsylvania. The tragedy claimed the lives of 2,977 people in total, that includes workers and visitors of the twin towers, the victims of the Pennsylvania and Washington incident and the first response rescue workers.
Present Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, previous president George W. Bush all paid a visit to the recovering site of the World Trade Centre today. George W. Bush read a paragraph extracted from a letter that President Abraham Lincoln had sent to a mother that had lost five sons in the Civil War, citing his deepest apologies and highlighting that they gave their blood for a country that thrives because of them.
Obama Bin Laden, the master mind behind the attack was killed in Pakistan in May, it does give comfort to know that he is dead, but that doesn't even fill up a quarter of the emptiness and loneliness that the victim's family and friends have lived for the last ten years of their lives.
But obviously we should remember there are no faults that are committed without a trigger. United States must have somehow dismayed the Al Qaeda by giving "help" to their countries that they did not want. Perhaps in the future, before we give further help, we should negotiate with those countries to prevent anything similar from ever happening again.
A decade marks great changes, good ones, bad ones, and hopefully better ones. Prayers are sent out for the pricks of the heartaches that thousands of families feel on a day to day bases to end.
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