How many people died in the 9/11 attack including the plane and the two towers?
To those of you listing the battle deaths since 9/11, are you trying to imply that the the war against terrorism is not worth it? If so, then I think that yo need a bit of perspective. Revolutionary War Deaths: Lexington and Concord = 50 Entire war = 4,435 Civil War Deaths: Fort Sumter = 0 Entire war = ~360,000 Union ~260,000 Confederate WWI Lusitania = 128 Americans 116,516 World War II: Pearl Harbor = 2,403 Entire War = 291,557 So, as you can see, the spark that started American involvement in all of these wars was significantly less than the total casualties. So, if you are going to argue that we should not be fighting against terrorism and those that support the terrorists because the death toll among the military has now exceeded that of the 9/11 attacks, then we should not have fought any of the above wars either. We should have stayed in the British Empire, we should not have fought to keep the Union together and end slavery, we should not have gotten involved in WWI, and we sho
