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Terrorism. The mere mention of the word conjures up horrific images for most Americans of the events that unfolded on September 11, 2001. An overwhelming feeling of shock and disbelief prevailed as the American public watched television replays showing American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the north tower of the World Trade Center and sending the building up in flames. Approximately eighteen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, replacing the feelings of shock and disbelief with feelings of anger and hatred as the reality of a terrorist attack on American soil started to sink in. In less than an hour and a half, the south tower collapsed into a heap of twisted metal and fiery debris. Twenty-three minutes more would pass before the north tower would collapse, forever changing the landscape of the New York skyline. A mere forty minutes after the second airliner crashed into the World Trade Center, the scene shifted to Washington DC where a third airliner, American Airlines Flight 77, plunged into the Pentagon, the hallmark of American military might. Meanwhile, a fourth airliner, United Airlines Flight 93, was being hijacked and thought to be headed for the Whitehouse, when a group of courageous passengers overpowered the hijackers and sent the airliner crashing into a field in western Pennsylvania.1 The death toll from these horrific terrorist attacks would surpass 3,000.

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