10 years of 9/11

It's been 10 years since the occurrence the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. That day started out as a normal day for the US. Kids were off to school that morning, their moms stayed home and took care of the house, and their dads were on their way to work. There was not even a single cloud in the sky in New York. But, at 8:46 a.m. eastern time, five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower. This was followed 17 minutes later by a second hijacked plane crashing into the South Tower. Another American Airlines flight, Flight 77, flew into the pentagon at exactly 9:37 a.m. A fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93 was targeted to hit the US Capitol building in Washington D.C., but eventually crash-landed into a small farm in Pennsylvania. The area where United 93 crashed will now be the site for a permanent memorial. Our nation still feels the pain of what happened that fateful day. Many police and firemen in New York risked their lives to save as many people as they could that day, and hopefully an attack like this will never happen on American soil again.