Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U. Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard.
Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U. In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W.
Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention. Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs.
Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell. The Victim Compensation Fund was set to stop accepting claims in December The first memorials to September 11 came in the immediate wake of the attacks, with candlelight vigils and flower tributes at U.
For the first anniversary of the attacks in New York City in , two bright columns of light were shot up into the sky from where the Twin Towers once stood. On clear nights, the beams are visible from over 60 miles away. It consists of two reflecting pools with waterfalls rushing down where the Twin Towers once rose into the sky.
The names of all 2, victims are engraved on the bronze panels surrounding the pools, arranged by where individuals were on the day of the attacks, so coworkers and people on the same flight are memorialized together. Firefighters and their family members attend a memorial service for fallen firefighters at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The flag was unfurled on the Gen. Hoyt S. The Vandenberg, a foot-long former Army troop transporter and Navy missile-tracking ship, was scuttled in as an artificial reef.
Mark Milley greet each other during the ceremony at the Pentagon. Rebecca S. Victims' family members and loved ones attend the ceremony in New York. A jogger holds an American flag as he runs past the Washington Monument on Saturday.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon. Flowers are left for the victims of Flight 93 at the memorial site near Shanksville. Former President George W.
Bush and former first lady Laura Bush hold hands during the ceremony near Shanksville. Mennonites from western Massachusetts sing hymns at Ground Zero.
New York firefighters line the street during a ceremony marking when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Forty passengers and crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93 died when the plane crashed into a field. Gene J. Katie Mascali is comforted by her fiance, Andre Jabban, as they stand near the name of her father, Joseph Mascali, during the ceremony in New York.
Participants walk nine laps around the Red Rocks Amphitheater, which is equivalent to the floors of the World Trade Center. Marian Brennan sits at the headstone of her nephew Lance Cpl. According to the NYFD, firefighters were killed responding to the site of the attack.
Police officer Mike Brennan helps a distraught woman covered in ash and debris seek shelter following the collapse of the North Tower. In the years since the attack, thousands of first responders and survivors have died due to cancer or aerodigestive disorders, according to the CDC. A bicyle sits covered with sediment and ash after the World Trade Center was hit by two planes, Sept. Marcy Borders, 28, is covered in dust as she takes refuge in an office building after one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
She was working on the 81st floor of the North Tower when Flight 11 crashed into the building. She died of stomach cancer in at the age of Rescue crews engulfed in a fog of dust set about the task of finding survivors in the rubble of the World Trade Center, Sept.
Michael Dugan hangs an American flag from a light pole in front of what is left of the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in a terrorist attack, Sept. The rubble of the World Trade Center smolders following a terrorist attack on Sept.
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