The Impact of 9/11

            Many people thought it was an amazing thing to fly; it is still amazing to many people to watch the behemoth aluminum crafts today. But after the tragedy of nine eleven many people feared to do this phenomenon that people thought wasn’t even possible many years ago. What affect did this tragedy have on the people in the United States? It involved things like the loss of  loved ones, the depression of watching it occur and replayed, and mostly the difference in the way air travel has changed for people here in the United States.

            Many citizens did not fly again until about the year 2006, and some people are still stressed out to fly. Some of them are not stressed out by the scare that nine eleven caused, but the strict rules it caused airlines to enforce on their customers. Some of these new rules varied on the processes you had to go through to get on the plane and the list of items you can and cannot bring on the plane. Because of the new stressful rules and the scare from nine eleven, the average air travel decreased by about 2.5 million people and still has not reached  the pre nine eleven highs today. As you can see nine eleven affected many people which causes them to not fly.

            Not only did nine eleven impact individual citizens, but it also affected airline businesses. Many businesses had to lay off workers because of their customer’s fear and stress of terrorist on a plane after nine eleven. This made the income of most of the airline businesses too low to afford to pay some of their workers and the supplies they needed. Two years before the tragedy of nine eleven, most airline businesses were making the most net profits in their business history. Their average income two years before decreased by about 11,000 dollars anually. This mostly affected new businesses and small businesses. Some of them are still suffering today.

            Six years after nine eleven researchers found how it affected people’s mental health. Researchers compared brain scans of witnesses of nine eleven and those who were farther away. Through this, they found that people who were actually there showed heightened activity in the part of their brain that regulates emotional intensity and creates emotional memories. Researchers also found that actually experiencing nine eleven created a type of memory that was exceptionally vivid and confident recollection of a shocking public event. Those who were near the occurrence of nine eleven are found to show depressed activity which uses neutral peripheral details. This helps explain why they were able to have that memory so much longer and more vivid than average memories.  9/11 had many effects on people physically, but also many effects involved people’s mental struggles.  

            9/11 had affected things in many ways. It varied from air travel, airline businesses, mental health, and much more. Through this tragedy many things changed here in the United States. Between new rules in air travel or just the way we humans now act in general. Because of nine eleven, we are constantly reminded how serious the consequences of terrorism can be and how we need to be vigilant against its fruition.