102 minutes that changed America

The documentary 102 minutes that changed America described how the September eleventh attack on the World Trade center and The Pentagon shaped America and its future. First, it describes how the first tower was hit and the world was in shock. The fire department showed up and heroic firemen went up the tower while everybody else ran down. This makes me proud of the country and how some tragic events bring out the best in people. As they went up, the people in the second tower evacuate, but are told that it is safe to go back up. The fact that the announcement that it was safe caused hundreds of more deaths makes me wish that they heard about the hijacked plane that was aiming at the north tower just a few minutes earlier.

The documentary then describes how the second tower is hit, causing most of the American population to understand that this is a terrorist attack. The news spreads from England all the way to China as the world starts to pray for the people in the towers. They then go on to describe how two office workers, Frank and Pablo, start to make their way up the tower and rescue over a hundred people on the way up the tower. Frank and Pablo proceed to the 80th floor to the 90th floor and help a man out of an elevator he was trapped in. When the south tower falls, a huge dust cloud forms and Frank and Pablo decide to keep going up despite the danger of their tower collapsing on them. Unfortunately, they do not survive, and I cried while watching a film for the first time in years. The North Tower then collapses and bystanders are covered in dust and debris from the two fallen towers. It then proceeds to announce how many lives Frank and Pablo's brave sacrifice saved on their tragic journey to the top of the tower. Frank and Pablo's saved groups of people are inspired by them and go on to save others, causing a chain reaction that greatly reduced the numbers of deaths on this terrible day.