It’s September 11, 2010, and your family is in Brooklyn, visiting cousins. After dinner, your sister points to the New York City skyline.
Two beams of light shine side by side among the buildings. The lights reach high into the sky. You ask what they are, and your mom softly says, “It’s for 9/11.”
On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by terrorists. Terrorists are people who use violence to scare others and try to get what they want. That day, terrorists took over four airplanes. They crashed two planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and another plane into the Pentagon, which is where our military leaders work in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died in this terrible attack. We now call this day 9/11. After this, President George W. Bush said America would fight against terrorism.
