| Eight Years After September 11, 2001 - A Day That Changed America! (photo's) |
| By Hip Hop News | |
| 09/10/09 | |
Sep 11, 2009 9/11 After 8 Eight years, it’s clear that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, failed to alter America’s fundamental commitment to liberty and openness, say those tasked with steering the country through the aftermath of the terrorist strikes. But, they add, there’s no denying that the attacks changed the United States in ways big and small, forcing Americans to rethink their notions of a free society.Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida followers “killed some of our fellow citizens, and we’re mourning them,” said former Secretary of State Colin Powell. “They knocked down some of our structures, and we rebuilt them. But you didn’t win anything. We’re still here, and we’ll be here long after you’ve gone to hell.” At the same time, the extended struggle with militant Islamic terrorism “has caused us to look more carefully at the freedoms we have, the privileges we enjoy and what, if any, of those freedoms and privileges we need [to] talk about adjusting and changing in order to combat this,” said Tom Ridge, President Bush’s first secretary of homeland security, a position that was created in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Below is a few Photo's to remind us of the day that changed America!
 September 11,2001 FDNY firefighters climb WTC rubble.  September 11,2001 Photo was taken by photographer Thomas E. Franklin |
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