Sept 11th Remembrance Day

• By J. Keers

Things Americans Remember

Things Americans Forget

• 3 out of 10 Americans cannot remember what year the Sept 11th tragedy occurred in?

One Plane, One Tower

• 8:46 AM    Plane crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. 

Second Plane, Second Tower

• 9:03 AM    Plane crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center. 

The Pentagon

Third Plane

•   9:38 AM    Plane crashes into the Pentagon. 

The Pentagon – Washington DC

The Collapse

“Everything Changed”

Lost Lives • Victims came from more than 90 countries around the

world. •

The following are the number of people who died at each site:

World Trade Center        2,823 (includes airline passengers)

Pentagon                        125 (not including plane victims)

Flight 11                            92 people on boardFlight 175                          64 people on boardFlight 77                            64 people on boardFlight 93*                           44 people on board

Ground Zero

Inspiration

You are the historians

Today

• The new World Trade Center as it might look. The Memorial in the front center of the rendering is flanked by (from the left) Freedom Tower, 7 WTC, Tower 2, the PATH station, and Towers 3 and 4.

The Remembrance Flags

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