For several years now, people have had many opinions on what happened on Sept. 11. Usually the world can’t agree on anything, but one thing we all can agree that Sept. 11 changed the world forever.

On September, 11, 2001 at 7:14 a.m, two jet planes crashed into the World Trade Center leaving nothing but debris and the loss of many valuable lives. On that very morning many people’s lives were ruined, or changed, having no choice but to grieve under the clouds covering New York. People from around the world were streaming this very event for hours, multiple different news channels were covering this topic 24 hours of the day.

There weren’t just two jets that crashed but there were four total plane crashes. You may be asking where, how, and why? The first two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC; and the fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania shortly after the crew members and passengers attacked terrorists on board, which prevented the plane from crashing into another target the White House. When you think about the four planes being hijacked, you can’t even imagine what went through the terrorists’ heads and what pushed them to go through with it, because they weren’t just endangering and harming their lives, but everyone else’s on those planes as well.

About 3,000 people died that day including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder-suicide. The 19 terrorists were members of aI-Qaeda which stands for “The Base” in Arabic. The terrorists goal was to distribute fear throughout the country and severely weaken the United States.

Recently, I was given a task. I had to explain why three pictures from Sept. 11 would help generations 100 years from now understand these very events, but the thing is, even generations now can barely understand what exactly happened on Sept. 11 even by looking at pictures. So in 100 years who is to say that this will even be still a topic taught about in the school system when half of the things we should be getting taught aren’t even taught.

“I think that it should be a main topic taught because it changed the world so much. Even my dad got deployed and sent to Afghanistan because of 9/11, and there’s still wars going on because of those incidences,” said student Allie Vining.