PLEASE HELP ME THIS IS DUE TODAY. ILL GIVE BRANIEST. Lasting Effects of 9/11 September 11, 2001, is the date that the United States suffered a terrible attack on our soil. More than 2,700 lives were lost in a single day, with thousands of more lives lost through cancers that were developed as a result of the breathing in the toxic dust from the buildings collapse. I know none of you were alive at the time, but I would like to know what you know and how you feel about the situation. In this writing task, please answer the following questions- 1. what was 9/11, and what do you personally think and feel about the event? 2. Why do you think events like this, where people just try to cause pain and destruction, happen in our world? 3. Why do you think this event happened to us?