2021 9/11 Remembrance

September 2021

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A Timeline of Terror

How events unfolded on the morning of September 11, 2001

Honoring Local First Responders

Recognizing and supporting their efforts and sacrifices

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As we mark the solemn anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, we remember all of the people whose lives were lost and forever affected by the tragic events of that day.

Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends, their memories live on with their loved ones and their fellow Americans.

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Local first responders reflect on 9/11 attacks

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Every generation or so there is an event that, like a thunderclap, seems to catch the world’s attention.

For a short time, individual routines cease.

All humanity seems to stand frozen before our televisions, as we try to get a grasp of the unfolding chaos. Torrents of questions cascade through our minds and our awareness is heightened.

History is replete with these thunderclaps of history, so unthinkable they shatter our collective and individual sense of peace and cast aside assumptions we had held about our world. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy come to mind as such turning points, but the most recent example for most people is likely the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

On that day two decades ago, 19 men seized four commercial airliners filled with passengers before crashing them. One of the planes struck the Pentagon, striking at the heart of America’s military and defense capabilities. Another plane, Flight 93, did not hit its intended target. In a final act of courage, passengers on that flight rushed their captors in an attempt to overpower them, forcing the plane to crash prematurely in a Pennsylvania field.

But it was the images

Alex Ross Photo Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington speaks to the media in November outside the Roswell Police Department about arrests made in a joint operation between local and federal law enforcement. Speaking with the Roswell Daily Record about his recollections and thoughts about the 9/11 attacks, just ahead of the 20th anniversary of that day, Herrington said he remembered it “like it was yesterday.”

from lower Manhattan where the remaining two planes struck the two towers of the World Trade Center that are most associated with that day.

In all, 2,997 people died that day. And even two decades later, the day still retains great emotional power. According to a 2011 Pew Research Survey, 75% of respondents said they had been emotionally affected “a great deal” by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, commonly known as 9/11. The survey also found that 61% of respondents said the attacks had changed life in America.

The survey also found that 97% of Americans who were at least 8 years old at the time of the attacks

remember where they were and what they were doing when they first heard of the attacks. Residents of Roswell and Chaves County are no exception.

Where were you?

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” said Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington when asked about that day. A deputy with the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office at the time, Herrington had just gotten off work that morning and was sitting in his living room when he saw on TV footage of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. Seconds later he watched as another plane struck a second tower.

Like most who watched

that video, Herrington had a visceral reaction.

“Two things were going through my mind: one was disbelief and the other was anger that someone would do that on our soil to our people,” he said.

Later, the 9/11 attacks would go down as the largest attack by a foreign entity on American soil in history. And that day, before they even knew the body count, the significance of the day was already clear.

Phil Smith, now chief of the Roswell Police Department, said he was in the living room of his New Hampshire home with his father when he saw on TV the planes hit the World Trade Center.

“We watched the second plane fly into the building.

Actually I was talking to my dad and my dad said to me, ‘The world will never be the same after this,’” he said.

“Watching our brothers and sisters, in both law enforcement and the fire personnel getting trapped in that building as the building collapsed, was absolutely deflating,” Smith said.

A law enforcement officer since 1984, Smith said police officers often approach their job with the mindset that there is no problem they cannot solve, no suffering they can’t help heal. However on that day he felt helpless.

“And there was nothing we really could have done about that situation. And that is frustrating,” he said.

For Stephen Lee, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and now commander of American Legion Post 61, the attacks felt like the opening shot of a global military conflict, a third world war.

“I had been out of the service for some time but for me I felt like possibly a world war was about to start,” Lee said. “It just felt like we were starting something that the world was going to have to finish. And given the history of how America gets into wars, this was more than a sufficient catalyst, in my opinion, to start a war.”

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4 9/11 patriot day & national day of remembrance 9/11 Continued from page 3 with that day, but the attacks also produced a widespread feeling of national unity and widespread patriotic fervor.

“I think it brought a lot of people back together,” Matthew Miller, now chief of the Roswell Fire Department, said.

Across the nation people waited in lines to donate blood. And there was surge in national pride, demonstrated by the increased presence of American flags. A story on the CNN website states that on 9/11, Walmart stores sold a total of 116,000 American flags, a dramatic increase from the 6,400 sold on Sept, 11, 2000.

“The American flag was everywhere. People were standing up for Americans they didn’t even know,” Herrington said.

Firefighters and police officers sought to bring calm to the madness. They worked around the clock to save the injured and dead who were buried beneath the ruins and in the process risked their own lives in service to others.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, 343 New York City Fire Department employees died that day. Of those, 340 were firefighters, two were paramedics and one was a chaplain who worked for the department. The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund website states Sept.

11, 2001 was the deadliest day on record for U.S law enforcement, with 72 officers killed. All but one of those died while responding to the

attack on the World Trade Center.

Miller said that as a result of the images and stories and heavy losses of that day, firefighters and first responders were seen in a new light, and embodied both the suffering and sacrifice of that day. For Miller the day had far-reaching effects for him personally.

As a child he had wanted to be a firefighter, but had never seriously pursued that dream. He said it was 9/11 that ultimately inspired him to do so.

“I can say that September 11th did play a role in lighting that fire and sending me back to get serious about pursuing that career,” Miller explained.

Fear The sense of loss and shock though would soon give way to fear. A Gallup poll taken weeks after they attack showed that 59% of Americans were either “very worried” or “somewhat worried” that they or a member of their family would become a victim of a terrorist attack.

The prospect of another attack and the need to prevent one consumed the national dialogue and weighed heavily on the minds of Americans.

“I believed it changed every American on that day to let every American know we are vulnerable, that fortress America was not impenetrable,” Lee said.

Lee compared the mindset about terrorism in those first post-9/11 days to Cold War years of the 1950s and early 1960s, when the possibility of

nuclear annihilation loomed large in America. The fear of a pending nuclear war prompted hikes in defense spending, construction of bomb shelters and “duck and cover drills” in schools where students would practice hiding under their desks, as if that could shield them from a nuclear blast.

That fear of nuclear war eventually subsided, but Lee said 9/11 brought back that same kind of collective fear.

“It seems to me every 20, 30 years we go through this cycle where it (a threat) comes closer to home and then farther away, closer to home, farther away,” he said.

The government and law enforcement soon enacted reforms.

Difficulties in communications between agencies while responding to the attacks prompted a push to make emergency radio systems more uniform, Miller said.

More broadly, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a War on Terror to defeat terrorist groups that carried out the 9/11 attacks and prevent future attacks.

Existing federal agencies such as the FBI shifted more towards the gathering of intelligence on possible threats. The controversial USA Patriot Act was passed to enable such intelligence gathering on possible threats and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was established.

Smith though said for police officers their jobs did not change all that much.

However, there was a

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“Everything has to be investigated.” he said.

20 years later With the passage of time the consensus that was forged in the fire of that day would gradually crack, but the attacks of that day continued to influence the national conversation.

Despite fear and warnings, no attack on the scale of the one experienced on 9/11 has been successfully carried out since that day 20 years ago. There have been plots that have been thwarted and smaller attacks, but as of this writing the attack that we feared was all but certain to follow did not.

Possible explanations for this are many.

Lee attributes that to increased military spending, which resulted in more resources, personnel and technological advances, and a change of philosophy. He said at the time of 9/11 the U.S. had large military bases stationed all over the world.

Now though, he said the bases are smaller in size and forces more nimble, affording them a greater ability to respond and prevent attacks.

Others such as Herrington point to greater vigilance as well as strengthening security at possible targets of attacks, such airlines.

However, worries still persist that another attack is still possible.

“I think we did increase our (borders), we did increase

our airplane flights, security on the airplane flights. We did increase lots of things but we have become lax and I truly believe that an attack is imminent,” he said.

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combined with talk about the need to tame rising deficits, could lead to cuts in defense spending that he argues could lead to America once again being vulnerable.

The unity and patriotic

displays that followed the 9/11 attacks will be just as associated with that day as the death and destruction.

Whether such a moment would still be possible today, even amid crisis, is something on which many differ.

“I think it is difficult to

have a kumbaya moment because we are too divisive right now,” Lee said.

Herrington though said he

believes it is possible, citing the death of 12 U.S. troops in Afghanistan as an example of how such differences can be temporarily cast aside.

“I have watched this country start to come together in a way to say ‘you don’t do that to Americans and you have to stand up for what is right. So I do believe that it can happen and I am seeing it all over this country,” he said.

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A timeline of the morning of September 11, 2001

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n the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes bound for California. The planes departed from airports in Boston; Newark, NJ; and Washington, D.C. September 11 would become an infamous date in American and world history, and the

events of that day would forever change the world. As the world commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the following timeline, courtesy of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, can help people fully understand how events unfolded on that late-summer morning two decades ago.

• 5:45 a.m.: Two of the hijackers pass through security at Portland International Airport in Maine. The men will take a short flight to Boston Logan International Airport, where they will join three other hijackers and board American Airlines Flight 11 • 6:00 a.m: Two of the hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, will eventually crash into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. The day was a significant one on the New York City political calendar, as polling stations opened at 6 a.m. for primary elections.

• 7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston with 11 crew members, 76 passengers and five hijackers on board.

The plane, which will eventually crash into the North tower at the World Trade Center, is filled with more than 76,000 pounds of fuel.

• 8:15 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston with nine crew members, 51 passengers, and five hijackers on board.

This flight also is loaded with 76,000 pounds of fuel.

• 8:19 a.m.: American Airlines ground personnel are alerted by flight attendant Betty Ann Ong that Flight 11 is being hijacked. This call lasts roughly 25 minutes and Ong reports that the cockpit is unreachable. In the moments before Ong’s call, one of the hijackers stabbed Daniel M. Lewin, who was sitting in front of him in first class. Lewin is likely the first person killed in the 9/11 attacks.

• 8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport. The flight has 49,900 pounds of fuel and is carrying six crew members, 53 passengers and five hijackers.

• 8:21 a.m.: The transponder on Flight 11 is turned off. This device is meant to allow air traffic controllers to identify and monitor the flight path of a plane.

• 8:24 a.m.: One of the hijackers of Flight 11 unwittingly broadcasts a message to air traffic controllers alerting them to the attacks.

The hijacker was attempting to communicate with passengers and crew within the cabin.

• 8:30 a.m.: Around this time, roughly 80 people have already begun gathering on the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center for a financial technology conference. The conference is one of many events on the Trade Center schedule that day.

• 8:37 a.m.: The Boston Air Traffic Control Center alerts the military that a hijacking is under way.

• 8:42 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark International Airport. The flight was due to take off at roughly the same time as the other hijacked planes, but was delayed due to routine traffic. Seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers are on board. The flight is filled with 48,700 pounds of fuel.

• 8:46 a.m.: Five hijackers crash Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Hundreds, including everyone on board the flight, are killed instantly. The crash severs all three emergency stairwells, trapping hundreds of people above the 91st floor.

• 8:46 a.m.: Police, paramedics and firefighters are sent to the North Tower • 8:50 a.m.: While visiting an elementary school in Florida, U.S. President George W. Bush is notified that a small plane has hit the North Tower.

• 8:52 a.m.: A flight attendant aboard Flight 175 reaches a United Airlines operator in San Francisco and reports the flight is being hijacked. By 9 a.m., various passengers on Flight 175 have called family members.

• 8:55 a.m.: The Port Authority informs people inside the South Tower via a public

address system that the building is secure and there is no need to evacuate.

• 8:59 a.m.: The Port Authority Police Department orders both towers evacuated.

One minute later Captain Anthony Whitaker expands the order to include all civilians in the entire World Trade Center complex.

• 9:02 a.m.: An evacuation order is broadcast in the South Tower.

9:03 a.m.: Five hijackers crash Flight 175 into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. All onboard the flight are killed, as are an unknown number of people inside the building. Two of the three emergency stairwells are impassable and most elevator cables are severed, trapping many people above the impact zone and inside elevator cars.

• 9:03 a.m.: A second call for mobilization brings the total number of New York City Police Department officers responding to the scene to roughly 2,000. In addition, the FDNY issues a fifth alarm and deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the scene.

• 9:05 a.m.: President Bush is informed that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.

• 9:12 a.m.: Flight attendant Renée A. May calls her mother and tells her that hijackers have seized control of Flight 77. When May’s call is disconnected, she calls American Airlines.

• 9:30 a.m.: Amidst reports of additional hijacked planes, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management at 7 World Trade Center is evacuated.

• 9:37 a.m.: Hijackers crash Flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 53 passengers and six crew members perish, and 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground are killed in the fire caused by the crash.

• 9:42 a.m.: The Federal Aviation Administration grounds all flights, ordering all civilian planes in United States airspace to land. Departures also are prohibited.

• 9:45 a.m.: Evacuations at the White House and the U.S. Capitol begin. Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session at the time the evacuation begins.

• 9:58 a.m.: Flight 93 is flying so low to the ground that passenger Edward P. Felt is able to reach an emergency 911 operator in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

• 9:59 a.m.: The South Tower collapses after burning for 56 minutes. The tower collapses in just 10 seconds.

• 9:59 a.m.: Continuity-of-government procedures are implemented for the first known time in American history.

• 10:03 a.m.: Four hijackers crash Flight 93 into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All 33 passengers and seven crew members on board perish. Passengers and crew had stormed the cockpit, and the plane ultimately crashes just 20 minutes’ flying time from Washington, D.C. • 10:15 a.m.: The E Ring of the Pentagon collapses.

• 10:28 a.m.: The North Tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes. More than 1,600 people are killed as a result of the attack on the North Tower.

• 11:02 a.m.: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urges the evacuation of lower Manhattan.

• 12:16 p.m.: The last flight still in the air above the continental United States lands. Within two and a half hours, U.S. airspace has been cleared of roughly 4,500 commercial and general aviation planes.

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President George W. Bush’s address to the nation on September 11, 2001 On the evening of September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush addressed a nation that earlier that day witnessed the deadliest terrorist attacks in world history.

That morning, hijackers took control of four airplanes, ultimately crashing two into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City and another into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers and crew attempted to regain control of the plane from the hijackers. All passengers and crew on board all four flights died on September 11, and thousands of others on the ground lost their lives that day as well. It was under those conditions that President Bush delivered the following speech to a shaken nation.

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Good evening. Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness,

and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong.

A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.

9/11 patriot day & national day of remembrance And no one will keep that light from shining.

Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature. And we responded with the best of America — with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could.

Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government’s emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it’s prepared. Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington, D.C. to help with local rescue efforts.

Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks.

The functions of our government continue without interruption.

Federal agencies in Washington which had to be evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight, and will be open for business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business, as well.

The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will

make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance.

America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against terrorism. Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security

has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.”

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.

Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.

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Twenty years later, we pay tribute to those we lost and those who survived in the September 11th terror attacks on America, and to the extraordinary responders who risked their own lives and safety to help others. We also remember the spirit of courage, compassion, determination and unity that prevailed across our nation in the wake of disaster, and makes us so proud to be Americans.

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Headlines from around the globe the day after 9/11

Did you know?

The terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 shook the world. People across the globe, including men, women and children from

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were

all walks of life, reacted to the attacks with sadness, horror, shock, and anger.

perpetrated on American soil and in American airspace,

Newspaper front pages throughout the United States and the world reflected

but the tragedy that unfolded on 9/11 affected countries

those emotions on September 12.

across the globe. The attacks on 9/11 claimed the lives of

• The New York Times: U.S. Attacked: Hijacked Jets Destroy

citizens of 78 countries. People around the world mourned

those who perished in the attacks, and various world

Twin Towers And Hit Pentagon In Day Of Terror

• New York Post: Act of War: World Trade Center destroyed;

many dead

• New York Daily News: It’s War • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Horror Mounts • The Washington Post: Terrorists Hijack 4 Airliners, Destroy World Trade Center, Hit Pentagon; Hundreds Dead • The Boston Globe: New day of infamy: Thousands feared dead after planes hit towers, Pentagon • Chicago Tribune: ‘Our nation saw evil’: Hijacked jets destroy World Trade Center, hit Pentagon; Thousands feared dead in nation’s worst terrorist attack • The Dallas Morning News: War at home: Shaken nation awaits tally from Pentagon, Trade Center attacks; Bush vows to track down terrorists and ‘bring them to justice’ • Houston Chronicle: Terror Hits Home • Los Angeles Times: Terrorists Attack New York, Pentagon • San Francisco Examiner: Bastards! A Changed America • Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ‘None of us will ever forget’ • USA Today: ‘Act of war’: Terrorists strike; death toll ‘horrendous’ • The Australian: War Of Terror: Bush vows to hunt down perpetrators of world’s worst terrorist attacks • Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia): America Attacked • The Sydney Morning Herald: Terror war on US: World Trade Center Razed; 10,000 feared dead in suicide attacks • The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia): World Terror: Hijacked Jets Hit Trade Centre; 10,000 Dead • The Age (Melbourne, Australia): War on America • The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia): US Attacked • The Daily Telegraph (London): War on America

leaders made comments that reflected the global impact of the senseless acts of violence that were perpetrated on 9/11. The comments from then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reflect how shaken the world was in the aftermath of the attacks. “They were not only attacks on the people in the United States, our friends in America,” Schroeder said, “but also against the entire civilized world, against our own freedom, against our own values, values which we share with the American people.”

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The 9/11 Memorial

mong the more indelible images to emerge on September 11, 2001 was the sight of two planes crashing into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center.

Still photos and video footage of those planes flying into the Twin Towers were the first images of the attacks many Americans saw, and no one who watched events unfold that morning will ever forget those images.

Though both the North and South Towers fell on that day, today the site where each tower once stood is a serene retreat in the bustling lower Manhattan neighborhood that was shaken to its core on the day of the attacks. The 9/11 Memorial was designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum notes that Arad and Walker’s proposal was chosen in

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a design competition that featured 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.

The 9/11 Memorial is located on the western side of the former World Trade Center where the Twin Towers once stood. Two enormous reflecting pools are part of the Memorial Plaza, which is where the North and South Towers once stood. The pools feature the two largest man-made waterfalls in North America. Around the edges of the pools, the names of people who were killed in the 9/11 attacks in New York, the Pentagon, on Flight 93, and in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center are etched in bronze.

In recognition of the crash sites, 400 swamp white oak trees were selected from nurseries located in New York, Pennsylvania and near Washington, D.C. These trees are

Remembering the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center

mong the more indelible images to emerge from the terrorist attacks on September 11 are the photographs and video footage of two airplanes flying into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. At 8:46 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. Both buildings would ultimately collapse, killing untold numbers of innocent people. The attack on 9/11 was the second terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in less than a decade. On February 26, 1993, approximately 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van parked in the underground parking garage of

the World Trade Center was detonated by a small cell of terrorists linked to a local radical mosque and an Islamist terror network. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum notes that the explosion created a fivestory, 150-feet-wide crater. The attack injured more than 1,000 people and killed six, including Monica Rodriguez Smith, who was pregnant. The day of the attack was her last day of work before maternity leave. Two memorials, a fountain and a brass plaque bearing the names of the victims of the 1993 attack, were ultimately created to commemorate those who lost their lives. Each memorial was destroyed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, but a small piece of the fountain was recovered in the aftermath of 9/11.

That piece was rededicated on February 26, 2005.

located throughout the Memorial Plaza, providing a peaceful respite separate from the surrounding city.

The Memorial Plaza also includes one Callery pear tree. That tree was discovered at Ground Zero weeks after the attacks and it was severely damaged. The tree, now known as the Survivor Tree, was nursed back to health by members of the New York City Parks and Recreation

Department

and

returned to the World Trade Center site in 2010, where it still stands as an enduring symbol of resilience and perseverance.

The 9/11 Memorial is free and

open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

More information about the 9/11 Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum can be found at www.911memorial.org.

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Ground zero rebuilding still unfinished, 20 years later Associated Press

NEW YORK — Two decades after its destruction in the Sept. 11 attacks, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex remains incomplete.

Two planned skyscrapers, a performing arts center and a church are still unfinished at the site.

The memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools opened in 2011. One World Trade Center — the spire originally known as the Freedom Tower — opened in 2014, as did the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. An underground transit hub and shopping mall opened in 2016. Three other glassy towers built to replace those lost in the attack are open.

Cranes and construction fences, however, can still be seen around the site.

Here is a look at the unfinished work: 2 WORLD TRADE CENTER Planned as the second tallest skyscraper at the site, 2 World Trade Center, might someday reach 80 stories.

But for now, just a low stump of a building exists as a placeholder, covered with colorful graffiti-style murals at the northeast corner of the Trade Center site.

Developer Larry Silverstein has said he wants to sign an anchor tenant for the tower before starting construction.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic emptying out office buildings, the now-90year-old says he is confident a tenant will be found so the Norman Foster -designed tower can be built in his lifetime.

“At the end of the day, my goal is to put the shovel in the ground as soon as possible, and complete the rebuilding project we started 20 years ago,” Silverstein said in an emailed statement.

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

After years of delays, the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center is under construction just to the west of 2 World Trade Center’s future site and is scheduled to open in 2023.

While a performance center was part of World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind’s original scheme, disputes

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center is under construction, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at the World Trade Center in New York. After years of delays it is scheduled to open in 2023

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Construction has yet to begin on the tower that will replace an office building, occupied by Deutsche Bank, that was was damaged and contaminated by debris from the collapsing twin towers. The original building was demolished between 2007 and 2011 — a job that came with its own tragedy. Two firefighters died in the building during a 2007 fire.

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Plans call for 25% of the apartments

to be designated as affordable and rented at below-market rates. But some neighborhood residents say that isn’t good enough. They would like all of the apartments to be affordable.

“The universal demand was always

that there be affordable housing,” said Todd Fine, a lower Manhattan preservation advocate. Fine called 330 below-marketrate apartments “very minimal.”

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The Pentagon Memorial

At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. All 53 passengers and six crew members perished in the crash, and an additional 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground were killed in the fire caused by the crash.

The hijacking of Flight 77 was part of the broader attack on 9/11, which remains the deadliest terrorist attack in world history. The Pentagon Memorial was created to honor the 184 people whose lives were lost at the Pentagon on 9/11, as well as their families and all those who sacrifice to protect and preserve the freedom of Americans.

The design of the Pentagon Memorial was developed by architects Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman. Their design was chosen from 1,100 submissions.

The Pentagon Memorial sits on two acres of land just outside where Flight 77 struck the building. The memorial includes 184 benches that are dedicated to each of the victims.

The benches are organized in a timeline of their ages, stretching from the youngest victim, 3-year-old Dana Falkenberg, to the oldest, 71-yearold John Yamnicky. Each bench is engraved with a victim’s name and

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arches over a shallow reflecting pool of water, lit from below. The benches for the passengers who were aboard the plane at the time of the crash are positioned so visitors will face the sky when reading the victims’ names. The benches dedicated to the victims who were inside the building are positioned so their names and the Pentagon are in the same view.

A curved wall known as the Age

Wall also is a significant part of the memorial. The wall increases in height from 3 inches to 71 inches to represent the ages of the victims.

Eighty-five paperbark maple trees were clustered throughout the memorial, and these trees feature foliage that changes to orange and red each fall. The trees will eventually grow to 30 feet, providing a canopy of shade over the memorial.

The Pentagon Memorial is free

and open seven days a week yearround, though visitors are urged to contact the Memorial in advance due to potential restrictions or closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information about the Memorial

Thousands of lives were lost.

Thousands more were changed forever. We will never forget what transpired on that day, nor will we forget those who perished. We salute them and their families and all of those that came to the aid of another.

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The Flight 93 National Memorial

At 10:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the last of four planes that were hijacked earlier that morning crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The people behind the 9/11 attacks later claimed the hijackers who commandeered the plane intended to crash it into the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., but passengers and crew stormed the cockpit, prompting the hijackers to crash the plane into the field, which is less than 20 minutes’ flying time to Washington, D.C. The efforts of passengers and crew onboard Flight 93 were nothing short of heroic. Though everyone aboard the flight perished in the crash, the attack on the U.S. Capitol was thwarted, saving untold number of lives. All passengers and crew on board Flight 93 were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal on September 11, 2014.

The Flight 93 National Memorial is located in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, roughly two miles north of Shanksville. The memorial was opened to family members of the victims on September 10, 2015, and is now open to the public seven days a week, 365 days a year from sunrise to sunset, though visitors are urged to contact the Memorial in advance due to potential restrictions or closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In September 2005, the Flight 93 Advisory Commission, which included family members of the victims as well as design and art professionals and community and national leaders, chose a design proposal

submitted by Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Architects from among 1,100 entries.

The Flight 93 National Memorial includes the Tower of Voices, a 93-foot-tall musical instrument that holds 40 wind chimes, one to represent each of the 40 passengers and crew members who perished in the crash. The tower is located on an oval concrete plaza that includes two curved concrete benches facing the opening of the tower. The tower is surrounded by concentric rings of white pines and deciduous plantings. A live webcam of the Tower of Voices can be viewed at https://www.flight93friends.org/ plan-your-visit/webcams.

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial also can visit the Memorial Plaza. The Memorial Plaza features the Wall of Names, which is made up of 40 white polished marble stones inscribed with the names of the passengers and crew who were aboard Flight 93 on 9/11. The Memorial Plaza extends one-quarter mile alongside the area where Flight 93 crashed. Visitors can walk along the Memorial Plaza and view the impact site, including a grove of eastern hemlock trees that were damaged by the crash. A gap in the tree line is still visible and serves as a lasting “scar” of the crash.

More information about the Flight 93 National Memorial is available at https://www.nps.gov/ flni/planyourvisit/inde x.htm.

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The domed sanctuary rising in Lower Manhattan bears little resemblance to the modest parish church that John Katsimatides had discovered years ago.

He often visited the old St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church to say a prayer and light a candle as he went to or from work nearby on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower.

John Katsimatides “was thrilled that there was a Greek church right across the street from where he worked,” recalled his sister, Anthoula Katsimatides.

John, 31, a corporate bonds broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, was among the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The old St. Nicholas Church was also destroyed that day. While no one was killed in the building, it was crushed beneath the falling south tower — the only house of worship destroyed in the attacks.

“When we discovered ... that St. Nicholas was also lost, we thought that there was some kind of a message there, that the victims did not die alone,” Anthoula Katsimatides said. “I remember my mom saying that ... John and the other victims were being cradled by St. Nicholas.”

The church is being built in an small, elevated park overlooking the World Trade Center memorial plaza, close to the reflecting pools that mark where the twin towers once stood. A huge, bronze sphere that once stood between the towers now stands, dented and damaged, in the park just beyond the chapel’s doors. Tour and school groups often gather on a flight of steps leading to the shrine.

The shrine’s concrete shell,

AP Photo Workers install marble on the exterior of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, which is the only house of worship on ground zero, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in New York.

passed daily by streams of tourists, has been one of the most visible signs of the unfinished work of the ground zero rebuilding effort.

Work to install its marble cladding has been proceeding at a fast pace in recent weeks, though the church isn’t slated to be completed until next year.

The church is designed

by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, with its dome, windows and iconography inspired by historic former Byzantine churches, including the world-renowned Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. A Greek iconographer is integrating traditional designs with imagery from 9/11, including tributes to slain rescue workers.

Given its prominent location near the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the shrine is destined to become a signature American expression of Eastern Orthodoxy, an ancient

Christian communion that still predominates in Greece and much of Eastern Europe but has a slender share of the U.S. Christian population.

In addition to its sanctuary, the shrine will have a separate space for meditation and reflection for people of all faiths.

Greek immigrants founded St. Nicholas on Lower Manhattan’s Cedar Street in 1916, converting a former tavern into a church and topping it with a small belfry and cross.

Over the decades, even as the little church was islanded by a parking lot and dwarfed by the World Trade Center, parish leaders refused to sell to land-hungry developers.

After 9/11, the archdiocese always intended to rebuild, but its location on Liberty Street was settled only after litigation between the archdiocese and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

But costs soared beyond projections, and construction halted in late 2017 after the archdiocese fell behind on payments.

The newly created Friends of St. Nicholas, led by a core of wealthy Greek-Americans, assumed management of the project. It has completed fundraising for the church, with estimated costs of close to $85 million, and is now raising an endowment for maintenance and security.

The project has personal significance for the Rev. Alex Karloutsos, longtime vicar-general for the archdiocese. After the 9/11 attacks, he was among clergy offering spiritual support to recovery workers.

“People at that point were looking for something sacred, because they had just experienced that which is evil,” he said.

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This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The attacks on September 11, 2001 remain the deadliest terror attacks in world history, claiming more than 2,900 lives and causing countless injuries and long-term health problems for tens of thousands of civilians and first responders.

The 20th anniversary of 9/11 will no doubt evoke responses that span the emotional spectrum. Sadness may dominate such responses, but the anniversary of 9/11 also is a great time to reflect on the efforts of first responders. First responders played a vital role on 9/11, and many lost their lives and/or suffered long-term health consequences resulting from their selfless efforts to save innocent victims of the attacks.

In the two decades since the 9/11 attacks, first responders have continued to make countless sacrifices to ensure their communities

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How to honor first responders

are safe and peaceful places to call home. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is a great time to recognize the efforts of first responders and honor them for all they do.

• Donate to local fire departments.

According to the U.S. Fire Administration, 54 percent of active firefighting personnel are volunteers.

Many of those volunteer firefighters work for underfunded departments that are in need of financial support.

Donating to such departments is a great way to show first responders how much their efforts are appreciated.

Donations may be used to purchase new equipment, upgrade existing facilities, provide vital training, and/or improve response times, the latter of which can increase the likelihood that firefighters make it through calls safe and sound.

• Back legislation to support

wounded first responders. Many first responders suffer significant mental and physical injuries while on the job.

Various nonprofit organizations help wounded first responders who may need to make modifications to their homes or purchase costly equipment to get through their daily lives. But nonprofit organizations cannot go it alone in support of wounded first responders. Citizens can do their part by promoting and voting for local, state and national legislation that makes it easy for wounded first responders to get the help they need, when they need it. In addition to urging local politicians to support such legislation, private citizens can utilize social media to promote proposals and other efforts to support wounded first responders. Many 9/11 first responders are still fighting for government-backed support to treat injuries suffered 20 years ago, and a vocal citizenry can be a strong asset

in their fight and the fight of countless others in need of help.

• Commit to supporting first responders year-round. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 will call attention to the efforts of first responders on that day 20 years ago as well as the countless times since then that these brave men and women have served their communities. But first responders deserve vocal, yearround support. Make a concerted effort to thank policemen, firefighters, EMTs, nurses, and doctors in your community whenever you interact with them, and urge others to follow suit.

First responders play a vital role in communities across the globe. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 can serve as a catalyst for communities to express their support for first responders.

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How to discuss 9/11 with children

Twenty years ago, parents across the United States faced the delicate situation of discussing 9/11 with their children. Many adults watched their televisions with a sense of disbelief and horror on September 11, 2001, and parents were forced to explain the inexplicable events of that day to their youngsters.

As the world commemorates the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, many people who were children or adolescents on the morning of September 11 now have children of their own. Parents may need help explaining the significance of 9/11 to youngsters who were not alive when the attacks occurred. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum recognizes how difficult such conversations may be for parents and offers the following tips that can serve as broad guidelines to facilitate discussions about 9/11 and terrorism.

• Listen. The museum notes that some children will want to discuss 9/11 and terrorism and some won’t.

Discussions should not be forced if kids do not want to talk about 9/11 and parents can let kids know they’re ready to listen whenever kids want to talk. Kids who want to speak can be encouraged to share their thoughts and ask questions. Parents are urged to actively listen to kids’ concerns,

noting their body language and validating their emotions.

• Don’t avoid discussions. Children who don’t want to discuss 9/11 and terrorism should not be forced to do so. But parents also should not avoid discussing 9/11 and terrorism in general solely because of the difficult subject matter. The museum urges parents to invite conversations if children express an interest in learning about terrorism and 9/11.

Ask children, “What would you like to know?” or “How does that make you feel?”

• Remain calm and avoid appearing anxious. Adults should be aware of their tone when discussing 9/11 and terrorism with children. Make a concerted effort to remain calm and not appear anxious. Answer questions honestly, but also in a way that is developmentally appropriate. Ask children if they have any concerns and provide appropriate, realistic reassurance. Let kids express their feelings and focus on how to cope with those feelings rather than suggesting their feelings are unfounded. If necessary, share what’s been done since 9/11 to keep the country safe and prevent future attacks.

• Learn about 9/11 so you can

answer questions truthfully. The images of 9/11 are indelible, but even adults who lived through the tragedy may not know the answers to questions kids may ask. In anticipation of such questions, parents can visit 911.memorial.org to learn more about 9/11 so they’re better prepared to answer kids’ questions. Resolve to find answers to questions together if need be.

• Emphasize hope. Acts of terrorism are often so horrific that they can contribute to a deep sense of despair.

But parents can explain to children

that events like 9/11 also tend to bring out the best in people who are inspired to help and support family, friends and strangers alike. Emphasize the ways this happened on 9/11 and express to kids that their own acts of compassion may help to prevent future acts of violence and intolerance.

The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 may inspire children to ask questions about the attacks and other acts of terrorism. Parents can employ various strategies to ensure such conversations are constructive and supportive.

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They were some of 9/11’s biggest names.

Where are they now?

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Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a symbol of Sept. 11 — and though her celebrity passed, her widowhood cannot.

In the aftermath of the planes falling from the sky, America and the world were introduced to an array of personalities. Some we had known well, but came to see in different ways. Others were thrown into public consciousness by unhappy happenstance.

Some, like Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar, are dead.

But others have gone on to lead lives that are postscripts to Sept. 11, 2001.

Here are a few of the boldface names of that tumultuous time — what they were then, and what has happened to them since.

RUDOLPH GIULIANI

THEN: Mayor of New York City, he was a hero of the moment — empathetic, determined, a focus of the nation’s grief and a constant presence at ground zero. “The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately,” he said on Sept. 11. Oprah Winfrey pronounced him “America’s Mayor”; Time magazine declared him “Person of the Year.”

SINCE: After suggesting that his expiring term be extended due to the 9/11 emergency — an idea that was roundly dismissed — Giuliani went into private life, but not all that private.

He launched a profitable security firm and ran abortively for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. His adventures as a supporter of and agent for President Donald Trump are well documented, and resulted in the suspension of his law license in his home state.

BERNARD KERIK

THEN: New York City’s police commissioner. Bald and stocky, he never left Giuliani’s side in the days after Sept. 11 -- and followed the mayor after he left office, joining the Giuliani security firm.

SINCE: President George W. Bush appointed Kerik as Iraq’s interim minister of the interior in 2003 during the Iraq war, and nominated him to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2004. He withdrew from consideration when it was revealed that he had employed an undocumented worker as a nanny and housekeeper; there followed a series of legal troubles, including convictions for ethics violations and tax fraud. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THEN: The 43rd president of the United States, Bush was informed of the 9/11 attacks while reading “The Pet Goat” to second graders in Sarasota, Florida.

He spoke to the nation that night and visited ground zero three days later, grabbing a bullhorn to declare: “I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people – and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” His support in the polls reached 85 percent.

SINCE: The War on Terrorism begat the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Bush’s demand that the Taliban “hand over the terrorists, or ... share in their fate.” He had long retired to oil painting in Texas when Navy SEALs killed bin Laden, and when President Joe Biden pulled U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

In August, he said he was watching developments there “with deep sadness.”

RICHARD CHENEY

THEN: While the Secret Service

played “hide the president” with Bush on Sept. 11 — he was shuttled to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska, for fear of terrorist attacks — his vice president hunkered down in a “secure, undisclosed location,” a bunker inside the White House where he helped direct the government’s actions. Cheney became a fierce advocate of an unbridled response to the attacks, using “any means at our disposal.” He pushed for the 2003 war in Iraq. The interrogation technique known as waterboarding was a proper way to get information from terrorists, he said — not torture, as its critics have long insisted.

Bush. In the summer of 2001, she met with CIA Director George Tenet at his request to discuss the threat of al-Qaida attacks on American targets.

The CIA reported that “There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months.” Rice would later say that the information was old.

SINCE: After five heart attacks and a 2012 heart transplant, Cheney has lived to see his daughter, Liz, win his old congressional seat in Wyoming and become GOP persona non grata because of her criticism of Donald Trump.

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COLIN POWELL

THEN: A former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell was confirmed unanimously as secretary of state in 2001. He would go on to make a persuasive case before the United Nations for military action against Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction. The war was waged, Saddam was toppled and killed, Iraq was destabilized; no such weapons were found.

SINCE: Powell has consistently defended his support of the Iraq War. But the lifelong Republican had little use for Trump, endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and speaking in support of Biden at the 2020 Democratic convention. He left the Republican party after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

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THEN: National security adviser to

SINCE: Rice succeeded Powell as secretary of state and has since returned to Stanford University as provost, then as a faculty member. In 2012, she also became one of the first two women allowed to join the Augusta National Golf Club.

THEN: Attorney general during Bush’s first term. In the wake of 9/11, he was the administration’s prime advocate of the USA PATRIOT Act, which gave the government broad powers to investigate and prosecute those suspected of terrorism. But in 2004, while lying in an intensive care unit with gallstone pancreatitis, he refused the administration’s entreaties to overrule a Justice Department finding that the Bush domestic intelligence program was illegal.

SINCE: After leaving office in 2005, Ashcroft became a lobbyist and consultant. His appearances as a gospel singer (and songwriter — his tune “Let the Eagle Soar” was performed at the second Bush inauguration) have tailed off.

JOHN YOO

THEN: As deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Yoo provided much of the legal underpinning for the War on Terrorism. He argued that “enemy combatants” captured in Afghanistan need not be given prisoner of war status; that the president could authorize warrantless wiretaps of U.S.

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SINCE: Yoo is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He remains a strong supporter of presidential prerogatives; in 2020, his book “Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power” argued that Trump’s vision of the presidency was in line with that of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton.

KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED

THEN: Leading propagandist of alQaida, labeled the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks” by the 9/11 Commission. He was captured in 2003 by the CIA and Pakistan’s secret police, then spirited to CIA prisons in Poland and Afghanistan and finally to Guantanamo. Under duress — some called it torture — he confessed to involvement in nearly every major alQaida operation, including the 1993

bombing of the World Trade Center, the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl, the 2001 attacks and others.

SINCE: His trial date has been postponed again and again. He remains at Guantanamo, indefinitely.

HAMID KARZAI

THEN: Interim leader and then elected president of Afghanistan in the wake of Sept. 11, he managed the delicate balancing act of remaining on friendly terms with the United States and the West while unifying his country’s many factions — at least for a time.

More than once, he called the Taliban “brothers,” and the later years of his presidency were marked by friction with the United States.

SINCE: Karzai has survived numerous assassination attempts, but when his second term expired in 2014, the passage of power to his successor, Ashraf Ghani, was peaceful. Ghani would lead the country for almost seven years, until he fled in the face of

We pay tribute to the gallant individuals who perished in 9/11.

May we remember them always and work to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.

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the Taliban’s triumphant return.

HOWARD LUTNICK

THEN: The chairman of the stock trading company Cantor Fitzgerald would have been in the company’s offices at the top of One World Trade Center, but he took his son Kyle to the first day of kindergarten. A total of 658 of the company’s employees — two thirds of its New York City workforce, including Lutnick’s brother Gary — perished. Within three days, Lutnick had established the Cantor-Fitzgerald Relief Fund for his company’s victims.

SINCE: The fund has disbursed more than a quarter of a billion dollars, including money for other victims of terrorism and disasters. Twenty years later, Lutnick remains the company’s chairman.

LISA BEAMER

THEN: After 9/11, Lisa Beamer became the face of the day’s mourners, and a reminder of the day’s heroism.

Her husband, Todd, a former college

baseball and basketball player, is believed to have led other passengers in an attack on the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 that brought the plane down before it could crash in Washington. His exhortation of “Let’s roll!” became a rallying cry. His widow made 200 public appearances in the six months after the attacks.

SINCE: Lisa Beamer co-wrote a book, “Let’s Roll! Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage,” and established a foundation in her husband’s memory. Donations dwindled, and Beamer receded from public view. The couple had three children, and all attended Wheaton College, where their parents met. All are athletes, like their dad: Dave, 3 years old when his father died, was a football quarterback; Drew, who was 1, played soccer, as has Morgan, born four months after the attacks. Morgan was her father’s middle name.

On September 11, 2011, we remain grateful to the heroes of 9-11 and to our men and women in uniform.

We remain committed to the ideals of freedom, liberty and justice for all.

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