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Looking back: Heartbreaking photographs of the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero
It was one of the darkest days in US history as the attacks killed almost 3,000 people, injured more than 6,000 others and cost Americans their sense of security. As the passengers were just seconds away from getting into the cockpit, the hijacker at the controls crashed the plane in an empty field in Shanksville, Pa., just 20 minutes flying time from Washington.
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Sunday, on the 15th anniversary of the attacks, hashtag #WhereWereYou surfaced on social media as many people recounted where they learned of the attacks. Some have never seen the videos of the World Trade Center towers falling; others can’t name the three sites where the attacks took place or who was president at the time.
Although the attacks changed everything, they didn’t deter Fowler and the other employees in their service.
Ramzi Yousef, who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had planned a massive attack on 12 US airliners over the Pacific in 1995, the 9/11 report said. The first moment of silence will be at 8:46 a.m., marking the time Flight 11 struck the North Tower.
He and a colleague were sitting outside around 8:30 or 8:40 that morning when they saw a report on the internet about a plane striking the World Trade Center in NY.
The tales of loss are heartbreaking, while the tales of heroism, sacrifice and indefatigable American spirit are many. “I love you, Dad”, he said. “You carry on, but you don’t move on”. The Word Trade Center has been rebuilt with One World Trade Center as the 1,776-foot tall centerpiece.
The 15th anniversary arrives in a country caught up in a combustible political campaign and keenly focused on political, economic and social fissures.
Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump attended the ceremony, but this event wasn’t about them.
No public officials will speak at the NY ceremony, in keeping with a tradition that began in 2012.
While New Yorkers commemorated the day by reading names aloud, thousands more gathered at similar memorial ceremonies at held at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania, and in a plethora of other cities across the country to pay tribute to lives lost. We did not know that 40 people were on a plane facing terrorists. We can not give in to those who would divide us. We look for ways to accentuate our differences.
Jerry D’Amadeo said he was 10 when he lost his father, Vincent Gerard D’Amadeo, who also worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. “We’re still the America of heroes who ran into harm’s way, of ordinary folks who took down the hijackers, of families who turned their pain into hope”. “It is clear that we all must stand together and work to defeat this scourge”, the statement said. “And we’ll keep doing everything in our power to protect our homeland”, he added.
But victims’ relatives and others will convene Sunday on the memorial plaza for one of the constants in how America remembers 9/11 after 15 years – the anniversary ceremony itself. Only a 21-mile section of the cycle trail has been opened so far.
Two-hundred and 25 miles southwest of NY, we encountered the family of Dan and Danielle Myers, who were visiting the Pentagon Memorial during the summer of 2011.
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The goal of the trail is to honor the heroes who lost their lives in the attack, David Brickley, president and CEO of the September 11th National Memorial Trail said. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. “That’s what this is about”, he said at the opening. “It will also contribute to the economic vitality of the area”.