Remembering the Heroes of Sept 11th, 2001

10 years ago a group of people attacked the United States using airplanes that they hijacked. This group of people were called Al-Qaeda and were led by a man named Osama bin Laden. This was a bad thing to have happened and the lead to a war on terrorism, which sent our soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq.

On that Tuesday morning in September 2001, average people were called to answer the need to do the extraordinary as they were pushed into an unimaginable situation. The brave firefighters and police in New York City ran into the collapsing skyscrapers to save those within. 343 firefighters and first responders from New York City died that day saving the thousands that were trapped within. The airplanes hit the skyscrapers so hard that the two buildings collapsed, and a third one fell later. The survivors searched the rubble for days seeking survivors and then for months seeking of the remains of those who were trapped within. For those first from responders, those who survived and those who didn’t . We honor you.

For the passengers of the airplane flight 93, who learned of the crashes into the World Trade Center and realized that their airplane had been hijacked and was to attack a target in our capital. These people, who were just traveling from Newark New Jersey, choose to be heroes for America. They knowingly sacrificed their lives to fight the hijackers and crash the plane in Pennsylvania to foil the plot. We salute the 40 members of Flight 93.

The fourth plane hit the Pentagon, which is the headquarters of our military. The office clerks and secretaries, the computer techs and the data analyst, the regular paper pushers were transformed into heroes saving their coworkers from the damaged building. We salute you.

And for those who stepped forward after these attacks on September 11 when your nation called you to go to war to protect it. September 11 was the first attack on American soil in over 50 years – an attack that was designed to hit our civilians and to cripple our nation in fear. To those men and women of our military who are served, to those people who are local first responders who learned how to protect us here at home, we cannot forget your contribution as heroes for America.

Photo taken from New York City Harbor on Sept 11th, 2001, Courtesy of National Park Service, Wikipedia Commons, Public domain