Tragedies leave strong marks on people’s hearts and minds that time doesn’t erase. Every
September 11 the country commemorates the anniversary of the attacks to the World Trade
Center in New York City.
On September 11, 2001 the United States lived one of the most tragic events in history. It all
happened on a Tuesday morning and the worldwide attention was focused on the Twin Towers
and how all the people trapped in the top floors were trying to escape by jumping off the
windows.
Going through the photos as time passes it just makes the pain grow more because there were
more than 2,977 people that lost their lives, over 25,000 injuries and long-term health
consequences.
As a recap of this tragic day, four passenger airliners which had departed from airports in Eastern
United States bound to California were hijacked by 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists in which American
Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the North and South towers of the
World Trade Center in lower Manhattan and within 1hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers
collapsed.
As the hours passed, the panic increased and the firefighters were doing the best they could to
pull people out the rubble.
*Bjoertvedt / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
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