What was 9/11? An educator at the National September 11 Memorial helps kids understand.

This 12 months marks the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 assaults. On that morning in 2001, two massive airplanes flew into the dual towers of the World Commerce Middle in New York Metropolis. A 3rd airplane flew into the Pentagon constructing in Arlington, Virginia, simply exterior of Washington, D.C. A fourth crashed in a subject in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 folks had been killed that day. The planes had been hijacked by 19 members of a militant Islamist group known as al-Qaeda (pronounced al-KY-duh). They had been offended about how the US was treating international locations within the Center East.