1. How did the September 11 attacks transform Americans' understanding of their security? How did the response compare to that after Pearl Harbor?

Well, we discovered that we needed to upgrade security so that potential criminals weren't coming into our country, and so potentially harmful substances weren't being brought onto our planes. That meant literally anything that could become a bomb, start a fire, stab someone etc. As for Pearl Harbour, I think that had more of an affect on how we thought our military and defence system was working.