It’s September 11, 2010. You and your family are 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, terrorists attacked the United States. Terrorists are people who use violence to scare others 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. They crashed another plane into the Pentagon, where our military leaders work. The fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died that day. We now call this day 9/11. After this, President George W. Bush said America would fight against terrorism.
