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    In the intact subsistence, the twin-towers have witnessed countless good times. All at once, the blows menacing the maneuver are not new to us. One of those debacles that had sinister the laypeople and several businesses was the three alarm fire in 1975 which broke out a fraction of the North Tower of World Trade Center.Lived for around three hours, the fire started burning 11th floor, the office of B. F. Goodrich, just ahead of midnight on February 13, 1975. The fire-monster started gulping down the offices partially on that floor and it also began spreading up and down amid the floors. The insulation of phone lines went up in flames causing six other floors to draw closer to the smash up by fire.

    The middle and around half the area on 11th floor of 110 story tower, burnt majorly. The ill-timed North Tower or the World Trade Center, in due course, had no fire sprinkler system installed and in addition to the mess up by fire, quite a few stories of the North Tower put up with water damage as a result of snuffing out the fire. But yes! The building structure had no damage because of fireproofing that saved steel from harm way. Read More...

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    The motives behind 9/11 were an outcome of deeply rooted unrest against the US in the Middle Eastern nations. The seeds of 9/11 were sown by America nearly a decade before the actual event. Back then, America was boasting about being a super power and trying to control the international issues. US was audacious enough to interfere in the issues in the Middle East. No one would have ever thought that what were assumed as good and peaceful deeds by the US were actually creating massive turbulence in the religion centric young minds in those countries.

    There have been videos and letters from Bin Laden, one of the youths who was impacted by US’ interference, about why they chose to attack America. There are many speculations as well. This all started mainly after the Gulf War and the actions US took after it being the lead in the 34 nations UN team. The reasons which Bin Laden mentioned as the reasons for attacking US are:1. Turmoil in Iraq: America has always been a global force to reckon with.Read More...

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    Law has always been very stringent in US it being the second home to millions of immigrants from every corner of the globe. But the US legal system received a severe blow when 19 terrorists came to US, stayed for a few months, underwent pilot training in some famous Flight Schools, hijacked four jetliners and strike three of them into important buildings in US; and the other one which missed the target was crashed on an open ground near Pennsylvania. In spite of having the best of technology and legal system in the world.

    How was it possible to execute all this in US, the superpower. 9/11 changed everything in America, from life to economy to law to sense of security. The attack was a big setback for the legal system as well. It raised many questions regarding the law enforcement. But the system learnt a lesson and many laws were amended to increase internal security while many others were created to infuse stringent restrictions on criminal activities.Read More...

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    Project Rebirth is non-profit organization that has tried to capture the post-9/11 effects on the Americans. Their foremost project is the documentary film ‘Rebirth’ which reflect the emotional healing of the affected people and the rebuilding of the towers. Just after the carnage of 9/11 Jim Whitaker founded this organization with the motive of showing the world the unfortunate loss, the resultant grief and the awe-inspiring recovery of those affected. Many affluent personalities have joined hands in this noble cause.

    The project is supported by many corporate firms in and around New York, many film stars and other organizations as well. Jim Whitaker had said in one of his interviews that he got the idea of the project Birth while visiting the Ground Zero just after the attacks. He felt that the site is not going to look the same forever and the rebuilding of towers, and also the hearts, would be a huge blow to the immoral minds indicating that nothing can hamper the American spirit.Read More...

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    On September 11 2001, when the Twin Towers were attacked by two jetliners, both the buildings came down in a matter of minutes. The Twin Towers, each, were 110 floors building and when these mammoth structures collapsed, they brought down many other erections in the vicinity.WTC 3, 4, 5 and 6 were completely destroyed by the fire and the falling of the Twin Towers. Other buildings that destroyed were St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Deutsche Bank and the Verizon. All these buildings added to the rubble of The Twin Towers.

    All this destruction was done with by 11 a.m. At around 05:30 p.m., after nearly seven hours the actual destruction, even WTC 7 collapsed. It was the farthest from the twin towers. It is said that while the North Tower was collapsing, the debris had caused considerable damage to the south face of WTC 7. Because of the impact there was a massive fire in the WTC 7 and even the sprinkler system did not work as it needed manual operation.Read More...

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    The 9/11 plan was being chalked out for quite a few years. The prime motive of the terrorists was to shake the US and also the world. They had made up their minds to tell how powerful they are and how they can destroy anything, even the most powerful things. US was always the most desired target because of many reasons. Whatever US did was taken as an insult to their religion; US supporting Israel, US targeting Iraq and US troops in Saudi Arabia. All these were taken as a threat to their religion and their beliefs.

    Then US was doing whatever a UN lead should have done in such crisis situations. But it went all wrong when they far stretched their responsibilities and turned that into a way of showing their might. It was obliviously going to be criticized by the Middle Eastern countries which are known to be standoffish and reserved. So, when the terrorist decided to get even with the American government, they had to choose that would stir up the government till its core.Read More...

What can the best way getting back at someone? The enemy always hits our weakest spots and when we wish to even out, the scores the best and the most effective way would to rise out of the weakness and come out stronger than before.World Trade Center was the vulnerable spot that some evil minds hit to shake America. No doubt was shaken and stirred to the core but US knows how to get revenge.Not only did they kill the mastermind of the attack, which is not very praised and approved of step, but also they are rebuilding the whole site.

 

On the morning of 11th September 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 took off at 07:59 a.m. from the Logan International Airport, Boston. It was delayed by 14 minutes and was on its way to Los Angeles. After nearly 15 minutes, at 08:14 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 also departed from the same airport and was heading towards LA, California. Till 08:30 a.m. everyone aboard realized that the planes have been hijacked. Both the flights, both Boeing 767, slanted their route and were heading towards New York.

 

The 9/11 terrorist attack devastated the North Tower, first of twin-towers to be struck and rest is the history. What everyone knows is the debacle that came out of the blue in the appearance of hijacked Boeing 767 of American Airlines, which deliberately flew into 1 WTC at 8:46 in the morning of September 11, 2001 and dreadfully ruined everything good that was happening on the floorboards. But what many people don’t know is the spirit of the North Tower.

 

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