September 11
Author Gor Nazaryan
The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September
11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide
attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on
September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda
terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet
airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two
of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World
Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on
board and many others working in the buildings.
Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying
nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers
crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in
Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.
The fourth plane crashed into 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 flights.
The death toll of the attacks was 2,995, including the 19 hijackers. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries. In addition, there is at least one secondary death – one person was ruled by a medical examiner to have died from lung disease due to exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse.
The tragedy that shocked the world. The tragedy about which we remember till now.. What’s the reason of terrorism?Whats the reason of war?There is only one answer- the reason is the aggressiveness of human society. Endless thirst for power and money either between people or between states.Thirst that only progresses during centuries. Everyone should realize that he needed an environment to live.Human can’t live alone. Same for the states. There have never been global empires and can’t be ever.
We are AIESECers.We are the people who want and who should do everything to change the world.We are the part of youth that want to have positive impact on our society.Everything in the world can begin only in local level and then spread.Terrorism and wars also.Change people around you,change your environment and this is the way to change the world.