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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. These were "a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks [...] against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001."
Of the 2,977 people who died, 2,605 were U.S. citizens and 372 non-U.S. citizens (excluding the 19 perpetrators). More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks, including the United Kingdom (67 deaths), the Dominican Republic (47 deaths), India (41 deaths), Greece (39 deaths), South Korea (28 deaths), Canada (24 deaths), Japan (24 deaths), Colombia (18 deaths), Jamaica (16 deaths), Philippines (16 deaths), Mexico (15 deaths), Trinidad and Tobago (14 deaths), Ecuador (13 deaths), Australia (11 deaths), Germany (11 deaths), Italy (10 deaths), Bangladesh (6 deaths), Ireland (6 deaths), Pakistan (6 deaths), and Poland (6 deaths).
It was a tragedy not only for America, but for the world.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 11 2021, @09:41PM (1 child)
You don't capture the atmosphere in Washington at the time, unless you mention the anthrax scare, the beltway shooter, emphasize the attack on the Pentagon which is basically right across the river from the Capitol. We had a horde of screaming, crying, terrified children making policy after 9/11/01.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday September 11 2021, @09:43PM
You mean approving policy, not making it. Everything was written and awaiting an excuse beforehand.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek