The Islamic Jihad did not begin in 2001. It had been going on for years, but the Twin Towers were the attack that made the world notice. It wouldn’t be the most devastating attack of course. The Jakarta Massacre in 2031 had far more casualties, and the Paris Bombing of 2036 vaporized most of Old Paris. The Twin Towers are what America remembers though. That attack was the beginning of a century of war that would bring America to her knees before it was over. A century that built the America I grew up in.