Introduction to Sociology
...destruction of the thousands of people who tried to escape. The third jet hijacked, flight 77 from Washington bound for Los Angles, crashed into the Pentagon, the nations military headquarters, killing 200 people, including those on the plane, and brutally destroying the building.(1) The final hijacked jet crashed in rural Pennsylvania even thought officials thing it was suppose to have destroyed another landmark in Washington, D.C. The total amount of people who died from The September 11 attacks left almost a total of 3,000 people dead. (2) The September 11, 2001 attacks struck America hard, leaving it in economic turmoil. Not only did the terror attacks strike fear in the hearts and minds of U.S. citizens, but in the eyes of foreigners as well. People, for a while, were no longer focusing on crimes of cities, but on crimes on human beings. How America could have known earlier about the attacks but did nothing to prevent them. The assault on the U.S. people left some...