On September 11, 2001, American soil was brutally penetrated and destructed by the terrorist group al-Qaeda. The group hijacked four commercial airplanes. Two of the planes crashed into and destroyed both World Trade Towers located in New York City. A third plane hit the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C. The forth and final plane crashed near the town of Shanksville in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died from this attack.
