Post 9/11 the education system currently teaches about the tragedies of 9/11. “The New York City Department of Education is making lesson plans available on how to teach and talk about the terror tragedy." (NBC New York) The story of that day is now in everyday textbooks and has its own sections in libraries across the nation. To address the lack of security that America once had, the American government implemented the USA PATRIOT Act. This act gave the government the ability to fulfill the purposes of “ …deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, improve law enforcement investigative tools, and…other purposes.” (USA PATRIOT Act of 2001) The change in government was necessary and contrary to the nation's original thinking where “the very term 'national security'… always implies that both threats and vulnerabilities lie outside the country. Our military and intelligence forces have been configured accordingly” (Gaddis 8). After September 11, 2001 the economy suffered a very strong collapse: there was an economic loss of 123 billion dollars during the first 2-4 weeks following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, as well as a decline in air travel over the years. coming years” (CNN.com). It took 3.1 million man-hours, $750 million and nearly two years to clean up Ground Zero (CNN.com). Post-9/11 technology has also changed. Full body scanners have been invented to create greater airport security. “The situation has been mitigated to some extent by the deployment of approximately 500 body scanners at approximately 78 airports in the United States” (Freedman). Data mining technology, which the USA PATRIOT Act allowed for, has also been implemented: “There are now supercomputers processing data posted on Facebook, Twitter, and countless websites and blogs, in multiple languages, all to find connections between people, places and events that could