September Eleventh;The Day It happened this is a first hand account of the day when Twin Towers were attacked. I remember the day, as if it was yesterday and I also have an account of it in my journal. September 11th was the day that ÃÂchanged everythingÃÂ. I was in English class when the announcement was made that instructed all teachers to turn on the classroom television and watch the news. The new reports, that at 8:45 a.m. a large, possibly a hijacked plane, crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. At 9:03 a.m. a second plane crashed into the second World Trade Center tower and exploded. Images on the news channel showed both buildings burning. At 9:43 a.m. an aircraft crashes into the Pentagon and evacuation in Washington and other major cities began immediately. As the debris spread in New York ; panic, anxiety, and anger spread across the nation.
English: United States President Franklin D. Roose...
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese...
September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City: View ...Our eyes were glued to the television and we wanted answers. As time would reveal the individuals responsible for this terrible attack. Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group of Islamic extremist, Al Qaeda (Arabic for "the Base") were to blame according to all news channels. With 2,948 people confirmed dead, 24 people missing, and 24 reported dead, the nation was ready to go to war to protect our national security, This launched the United StatesÃÂ ÃÂWar on TerrorismÃÂ. I have since researched such acts of terrorism on America and realize that this is not the first attack of its kind. Throughout my research I found striking similarities in the September 11th attacks and the bombing of Pearl Harbor . There are also similarities in the Administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush. Throughout this paper I will compare the two events and how...
September 11 and December 7
While this essay is reasonably well written, it reflects a stilted and biased view of the historical record. The fires had barely been extinguished at Pearl Harbor before military commissions were established to investigate the failure of intelligence that led to the attack. There have been at least ten formal investigations, plus countless attempts by military historians to determine if anyone in the United States government had prior knowledge of the Japanese attack, and the best that can be said is that it was conceivable to discern the attack, after the fact. However, the notion that anyone deliberately left American forces at risk remains a matter of pure and often malicious speculation.
Further, Roosevelt's private papers indicate that he intended to commit American forces to action if the Japanese attacked the Dutch East Indies and Singapore, because he felt that would potentially force Australia and New Zealand out of the war. Given that these countries were contributing critical manpower and resources to Britain, this would have been disastrous, and Roosevelt was ready to risk impeachment over the issue. As it was, the Japanese attack allowed him to enter the war without fear of impeachment.
As to September 11: there are literally hundred of books about the war on terrorism, many of them by reasonable and responsible journalists, scholars, and writers with credential far more serious than "Fahrenheit 9/11/" That movie is a wonderful piece of moviemaking, rightly deserving the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. However, it is no substitute for serious scholarship that examines sources that can make some claim to objectivity.
In short, this essay should be recognized for what it is, frustratingly biased.
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