Many have compared the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, unwarranted and unpredictable. The World Trade Center buildings in New York City still lie in ruin, an icy reminder of the terrorist attack. Both the U.S.S. Arizona and the U.S.S Utah remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life on that fateful day, also, they are both reminders of seemingly how easily the...
off all who lived through it. Many swore that it would never happen again on United States" soil, yet here it is again. But here it is again, but this time within the continental United States. Were there as many warning signs of the World Trade Center attack? This time, after the United States has been "hit" twice, will the people in power recognize the warning signs if they should appear again? Did the United States "learn its lesson?" No one can completely answer these questions yet and one might hope that no one ever has to ever again.