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Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. ... Then he heard people gasping. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping. He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens. He was standing between a cop and an emergency technician, and each time one of them cried, "There goes another," his camera found a falling...

Flight 93 National MemorialShanksville, Pennsylvania10:22 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, David, very much. It’s a great honor to be with you.Nineteen years ago, on this day, at this very hour, on this field, 40 brave men and women triumphed over terror and gave their lives in defense of our nation. Their names and their stories are forever inscribed on the eternal roll call of American heroes.Today, we pay tribute to their sacrifice, and we mourn deeply for the nearly 3,000 precious and beautiful souls who were taken from us on September 11th, 2001.To the...

9/11 ceremony at Flight 93 memorial

My 9/11 YouTube Channel Playlist – 16 videos – starts with “As It Happened” 5 days later. The 16 videos are listed separately in the first comment. Before I encoded these tapes, I removed commercials, removed duplicate video packages, and restored audio/video sych. I'm on no social networks so spreading any of the videos would be gratefully appreciated.

A slogan dismissing the devastation of 9/11 in order to promote the Black Lives Matter movement went viral on the 19th anniversary of the terror attacks Friday — with #AllBuildingsMatter trending in Twitter. The phrase was first picked up after Saturday Night Live cast member Michael Che used it in a 2016 Netflix comedy special to highlight anger at people saying “all lives matter” in response to the BLM movement. Che — whose brother is an NYPD cop — questioned why black people have to get over slavery, segregation and police shootings while everyone is told to “never forget” the...

I remember being so pumped up from this and this speech will live on for a long time. Bush had a 90 percent approval rating at that time. Loved him in his first term but he lost me in his second term.

Dulles, Virginia – I had completed a business trip and was headed for home on Northwest Airlines Flight 238. Our 8:45 a.m. departure from Detroit to Reagan National was one of the last flights to take off that morning of September 11, 2001, because shortly after our ascent, all air traffic in the United States was grounded for the next two days. As we began our descent, our pilot informed the passengers that our flight had been diverted to Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. It was clear once we had landed and been informed of the terrorist attacks that the...

When the chief of staff Andrew Card knelt down and told George Bush “America is under attack” 15 years ago Sunday, the words he whispered in the president’s ear in a Florida classroom launched what was supposed to be a planned, orderly response to a national emergency. But what followed instead was chaos, a breakdown in communication and protocol that risked international conflict and could have made Sept. 11, 2001, a still bigger tragedy. There were live nukes on the tarmac at U.S. air bases, a failed communications system, and a security protocol for the president and his potential successors...

BEFORE. Sunset at Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center, 2001. Photograph by Konstantin Petrov WTC viewed from New York Harbor DURING. INCOMING, #2 HORROR RAINS DOWN FIRE AT 9:03 NO. WHERE. TO. GO. SHE’S COME UNDONE AFTER. How quickly the country forgots the importance of first responders who run towards disaster We said we’d never forget but not only have people forgotten, they’re rewriting the script; now the only thing people are unwilling to forget is how racist our slave owning founders were. Children not yet born on 9-1-2001 won’t learn in school of the evil...

I like to check the big 3 search engines to see if they pay tribute to 9/11 ( terror attack ) and 12/7 (Pearl Harbor). Only Bing seems to care enough to do any sort of tribute on these dates.

Jud Box has spent eight years coping with the death of his firefighter son at the World Trade Center — but that didn’t prepare him for what he saw posted to a new online archive of photos and videos about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Scrolling through the archive, Box came face to face with his son, Gary Box, a firefighter with Brooklyn’s Squad 1, who was captured by a digital camera lugging his gear through a traffic-clogged Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel on his way to Ground Zero.

Nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaida carried out the four hijackings. The deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor in 1941, the events of September 11 permanently changed America's perception of security and prompted then-President George W. Bush to declare war on terrorism and invade Afghanistan.

Born and raised in NYC. I’m still here. I remember how, for a brief moment, it seemed like the world was ending. There was a fear that slowly gripped everyone that day. It started strangely. We heard fire engines roaring, in an endless wave, to some unknown destination. Teachers in my Brooklyn school looked out windows and commented that “something big” probably happened. In our classroom, there wasn’t even a faint clue of the tragedy unfolding. A foreign concept in today’s notification and information driven world - we had no TVs, no radios, no smartphones and no social media. As...

These are the nearly 3,000 names as they appear inscribed in bronze on the Memorial. Every name can be located by the panel on which it is inscribed. A panel address is comprised of the letter N or S (N for north pool, S for south pool) followed by a number 1 through 76. Two sunflowers and two yellow roses lie next to several names that are etched in the bronze parapets of the Memorial. PHOTO BY JIN S. LEE A Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr. S-49 Edelmiro Abad S-40 Marie Rose Abad S-34 Andrew Anthony Abate N-57 Vincent Paul Abate...

NEVER FORGET

Some thoughts on the 19th anniversary of the WTC attacks.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering 9.11.2001 ~ ~ We Will Never Forget!! ~ Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. John Phillip Sousa ~ Star Spangled Banner John Wayne ~ America, Why I Love Her John Phillip Sousa ~ Stars & Stripes Forever Toby Keith ~ Courtesy of The Red, White, & Blue (Angry American) Bobby Bare ~ God Bless America Again Charlie Daniels ~ My Beautiful America John Phillip Sousa ~ Armed Forces Salute John Wayne ~...

Following the attacks of September 11th, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA), creating the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). The TSA replaced private security screening companies with one government agency. Since then, air travelers have bowed to pat downs, bans on water bottles and other inconvenient, intrusive procedures as the “new normal” at our nation’s airports. But does any of this make us safer?

JOE BIDEN, the former Vice President of the US and Democratic nominee in the November 2020 elections, appeared to forget what year 9/11 happened during a live interview. The tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, saw the coordination of four terrorist attacks on the US by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, masterminded by Osama bin Laden. Just shy of 3,000 people lost their lives in the cowardly act and 6,000 more were injured, when two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, another into the Pentagon and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. This Friday, to...