By ELYSE TORIBIO
NEW YORK – On the morning when the image of the burning building a mere .6 miles away was on the television screens of most people around the world, the students of the High School of Economics and Finances, or “Echo” as they liked to call it, had absolutely no idea what was going […]
By JOE CARLSON
Ten years ago the United States of America was unprepared for the most heinous attack on the country anyone had ever seen. Even more unprepared than the country as a whole were the school systems where many of the countries children spent their days.
America had not experienced a tragedy since the Oklahoma City […]
By JOE CARLSON, EILEEN TRACY and LAUREN MENNEN
The terror attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 reshaped America’s sense of security, but more specifically, it impacted the next generation of leaders’ views on safety, terrorism and patriotism.
This new generation, called Millennials, generally consists of those born around 1980 up until 2005. Millennials are […]
By DAN O’LEARY
On Sept. 11, 2001, America fell prey to its worst terrorist attack in history, and a decade later residents in a small New Jersey suburb remembered that tragic day.
Dumont, a town of around 18,000 held two memorials on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the first Inside the Dumont High School gymnasium bright and […]
By MEGAN ANDERLE
It was September 2004 when Jannatur and Hazzatur Rahman, 16 and 17 at the time, were taken into a room at Newark airport in New Jersey where they were interrogated and searched thoroughly for four hours.
“They were literally harassed by officers, unlike anyone else there, just because we have a Muslim last name,” […]
By JILLIAN PARKER
Airport security has vastly improved for the safety of this country prompted by the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
Post 9/11 attempts to bomb airlines prompted more changes. The Christmas Day bombing attempt in 2009 led a man tied with Al-Qaeda to strap explosives to his underwear. He entered the plane but failed to correctly […]