After 9/11, the education system is currently teaching about the tragedies of 9/11. “The New York City Department of Education provides lesson plans on how to teach and talk about terror. tragedy." (NBC New York). The story of this era is now in everyday school textbooks and has its own section libraries across the country. To address the lack of security that America once had , the United States government implemented the USA PATRIOT Act This law gave the government the ability to achieve the following goals: “…deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, improve the tools of investigation by law enforcement and…for other purposes.” (USA PATRIOT Act of 2001) The change in government was necessary and contrary to the country's initial thinking that “the very term “national security”…. always implied that the threats and vulnerabilities were outside the country Our military and intelligence forces were configured accordingly (Gaddis 8). “$123 billion. Estimated economic loss in the first 2-4 weeks after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York, as well as a decline in air travel during the same period. in the coming years” (CNN.com). It took 3.1 million man hours, $750 million and nearly two years to clean up Ground Zero (CNN.com). Technology since 9/11 has also changed. Body scanners were invented to enhance security at airports: “The situation has been alleviated to some extent by the deployment of approximately 500 body scanners at some 78 airports in the United States” (Freedman). Data mining technology has also been implemented, which the USA PATRIOT Act authorized to put in place: "There are now supercomputers that analyze data posted on Facebook, Twitter and countless websites and blogs, in several languages, all to find connections between people. , places and events that could