September 11. 2001

American Thinker ^ | 11 Sep, 2026 | Robin M. Itzler

[MtnClimber]

September 11, 2001, was just an ordinary Tuesday. That morning at around 8:30 a.m. on the East Coast, most people were either at work or on their commute. Kids were settling in at school.

Whether the TV or radio news was background chatter or the focus, suddenly there were interruptions announcing that at 8:46 a.m. an American Airlines Boeing 767 (with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel) had crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center’s North Tower. The jet hit between the 93rd and 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper. Hundreds of people were instantly killed, and others were trapped on the higher floors with no way to escape.

Most people immediately assumed it was a terrible accident, and they continued with their day while listening for news updates.

However, 17 minutes later, at 9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors.

Americans immediately knew that the United States was under attack, with many correctly guessing who had attacked us.

This was not the first time the World Trade Center had been attacked by Muslim terrorists. On February 26, 1993, terrorists targeted the World Trade Center. A truck bomb exploded in the North Tower’s underground parking structure, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000.

(In October 2025, then mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visited Masjid At-Taqwa, a mosque in Brooklyn. The smiling Mamdani had his photo taken with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom federal prosecutors once named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Is anyone surprised?)

While the world focused on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, American Airlines Flight 77 was circling Arlington, Virginia, which is near Washington, D.C. At 9:37 a.m., the jet crashed into the west side of the Pentagon.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: islam

[MtnClimber]

I remember it like it was yesterday.

[Haddit]

This will take you back to 9/13/2001 and you can click on ‘Next Page’.
You can also change the 522000 number in the URL.
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[where's_the_Outrage?]

I remember watching on TV at work as the 2nd plane hit, I was an Army Reservist and told my wife I was going to war. Five months to the day later on 11 Feb I landed in Kandahar.

[deks]

Wow...I’ve never seen a link to past comments like that.

[Haddit]

I haven’t figured out how to do it anywhere else. Only FreeRepublic.

[Sicon]

I will never forget seeing members of Congress on the capitol steps, shortly after 9/11, singing "God Bless America". I remember being disgusted by how spineless, how weak, and how insincere they all looked and sounded. You could see the fear in their faces, you could hear it in their voices, and you knew that they were not the people to have in charge.

Not much has changed in the 25 years since.

[OldGoatCPO]

Good article. I had weekend duty. My son woke me to tell me that a plane had accidentally struck the WTC. In the fog of sleep, I thought, what pilot in a private plane was so stupid as to fly into the WTC? I walked into the family room just as they replayed the first plane striking the tower. I was awake in an instant, yelling, "that's no accident." I immediately called the duty officer who had replaced me. He told me to stay home but be ready to come in. They were trying to limit access until they better understood what was happening. By then, the second plane struck. I sat there stunned as the first tower came down.

Today, as I sat down to read the news and have my coffee, I went to a "conservative" website. I had stopped going there routinely because they had gone full Carlson, Owen, and Kelly. I left back when they ran the story implying the MOSSAD killed Kirk. Today it seemed they were all in on how the Jews were part of 9-11. I love a good conspiracy theory, but this shitte site is full on antisemitic. I believe we have a problem with reality. The internet has created this problem. But like guns, you cannot punish the 90% of normals for the 10% of crazy. But why are the crazies getting so much airtime?