Ten years later
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REACHING FOR HIGHER GROUND
Sept. 11, 2001: UNI commemorates 9/11 By the numbers with flag planting ceremony Total number killed in attacks: 2,819
RACHEL ZIDON
Total number injured in attacks: 2,337
Staff Writer
Across the nation, people came together to remember the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. At Ground Zero, family members of those killed in the Twin Towers gathered at the newly opened 9/11 memorial to read the names of their loved ones. In California, people commemorated the anniversary by donating blood. In Shanksville, Pa., President Barack Obama laid a wreath of flowers at the site where United Flight 93 crashed. In Oklahoma, students came to see a beam from the World Trade Center. In Washington D.C., the military choirs sang “Amazing Grace” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in front of the Pentagon. Here in Cedar Falls, students and staff from the University of Northern Iowa, along with community
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See FLAG PLANTING, page 6
To commemorate 9/11, UNI staff and students and community members planted a flag in Lawther Field for every victim of the attacks.
Number of planes hijacked: 4 Number of terrorists who hijacked the planes: 19 Number of nations whose citizens were killed in the attacks: 115 Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million Percent of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20 Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343 Number of NYPD officers killed: 23
Ground Zero: then and now KARI BRAUMANN Editorial Staff
Before its destruction on Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was an international commerce hub and tourist attraction. After a decade of cleanup, building and planning, a new WTC is being built. According to the WTC’s website, the new complex will include five new skyscrapers, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the WTC Transportation Hub, several thousand feet of retail space and a performing arts
center. In their time, the Twin Towers and other low-rise buildings in the WTC complex provided office space for hundreds of corporate and government tenants. The new complex includes six office towers that will reintroduce that space to the lower Manhattan area. The tallest of the towers will be One World Trade Center, which will reach 1,776 feet. Upon its completion, it will be the tallest building in the United States and will include “office space, an observation deck, world-class
restaurants and broadcast and antennae facilities” according to the WTC website. The other skyscrapers at the new trade center will range in height and, like One World Trade Center, possess a different design and appearance from the original WTC buildings, whose addresses they will bear. No buildings will rise from the original site of the Twin Towers. Instead, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will occupy that area. In the footprints of the See GROUND ZERO, page 2
Days after 9/11 that the United States started bombing Afghanistan: 26 Time the towers were hit: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes Time the towers took to fall: 12 seconds Number of bodies found intact: 289 Number of body parts found: 19,858 Information according to New York mymag.com and www.september11news. com/911art.htm MCT CAMPUS