How Sept. 11 changed American life
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. Twenty five years ago this week. We were left trying to understand what September Elevent would mean for our lives. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial planes, flew two into the World Trade Center in New York, and one into the Pentagon. while the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
The attack brought down the twin towers and killed almost three thousand people. President George W. Bush Urged us to go back to work. Get on planes, go shopping.
Take our families to Disney World. The message was that even as the nation went to war. Life at home but go on as normal. It did not. My guest today, writer Richard Beck, traces how the country we live in now was shaped by the nation's response to that morning.
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