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Sept. 11, 2001
In this 1990 file photo, New York City skyline with World Trade Center's twin towers in the center. Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue sky.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 approaches the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York moments before collision, seen from the Brooklyn borough of New York.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 approaches the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York shortly before collision as smoke billows from the north tower.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower.
This Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo shows the impact site of American Airlines Flight 11 in the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. A person stands at the bottom center of the tear in the building.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of President George W. Bush to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file picture, a person falls headfirst from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center.
A person jumps from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center as another clings to the outside, left center, while smoke and fire billow from the building, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers Tuesday morning. A jetliner also slammed into the Pentagon in Washington.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people in front of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral react as they look down Fifth Avenue towards the World Trade Center after two airliners crashed into the twin 110-story buildings.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 smoke billows from a World Trade Center tower in New York, after terrorists flew two airliners into the towers.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, the south tower starts to collapse as smoke billows from both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, the south tower starts to collapse as smoke billows from both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York.
The south tower of the World Trade Center, left, begins to collapse after a terrorist attack on the landmark buildings in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made the the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 the upper floors of the World Trade Center tower burns after terrorists flew an airliner into it.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse after a terrorist attack on the New York landmark.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, smoke and ash engulf lower Manhattan after terrorists flew two airliners into the World trade Center towers.
People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.
People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and the twin 110-story towers collapsed. Explosions also rocked the Pentagon and the State Department and spread fear across the nation.
In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center in New York.
The south side of the Pentagon burns early Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, with the city of Washington, including the White House and Old Executive office building in background, top center left, as seen from the River House apartments in Arlington, Va.
Federal Bureau of Investigation investgators comb the crater left by the crash Tuesday of United Airlines flight 93, a Boeing 757 in Shanksville, Pa., on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. The plane crashed about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh after first flying near Cleveland and then turning around. The plane was said to be flying erratically and losing altitude. Analysts said recovery of Flight 93's cockpit voice recorder could be key in determining what happened. FBI assistant agent in charge Roland Corvington said that more than 200 investigators were on the scene and that the search might continue for three to five weeks.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, a military helicopter ascends after dropping off personnel at the Pentagon a day after a hijacked airliner crashed into the Department of Defense building in Washington.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file picture, firefighters and inspectors look over the damage to the Pentagon in Washington after a hijacked airliner crashed into the Department of Defense building on Tuesday. The dome of the United States Capitol is seen in the background.
Rescue worker look over damage at the Pentagon Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. The Pentagon burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed after the building was hit by an aircraft in an apparent terrorist attack.
Three unidentified rescue workers walk away from the crash site at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, toppling its twin 110-story towers. The deadly calamity was witnessed on televisions across the world as another plane slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed outside Pittsburgh. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a priest prays over a wounded man outside the west entrance of the Pentagon as emergency workers from all services help the wounded after a terrorist attack on the Department of Defense building in Washington.
Firefighters George Johnson, left, of ladder 157, Dan McWilliams, center, of ladder 157, and Billy Eisengrein, right, of Rescue 2, raise a flag at the World Trade Center in New York, in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.
In this Sept. 14, 2001 file photo, a firefighter emerges from the smoke and debris of the World Trade Center in New York. A decades worth of study has answered only a handful of questions about the hundreds of health conditions believed to be related to the tons of gray dust that fell on the city when the trade center collapsed, from post-traumatic stress disorder, asthma and respiratory illness to vitamin deficiencies, strange rashes and cancer.
In this Sept. 13, 2001 photo, a first responder works in the rubble of the former World Trade Center in New York. A decades worth of study has answered only a handful of questions about the hundreds of health conditions believed to be related to the tons of gray dust that fell on the city when the trade center collapsed, from post-traumatic stress disorder, asthma and respiratory illness to vitamin deficiencies, strange rashes and cancer.
In this Sept. 13, 2001 file photo, an American flag flies over the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center buidlings in New York.
Firefighters make their way through the rubble after two airliners crashed into the World Trade Center in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
A fireman screams in pain during his rescue shortly after both towers of New York's World Trade Center collapsed following a terrorist attack, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
In this Aug. 2, 2011 file photo, work continues on the foundation for Three World Trade Center, foreground, while One World Trade Center, top, rises in the New York skyline. Developer Larry Silverstein is building Three World Trade Center while the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is responsible for One World Trade Center.
This photo provided by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shows work being done at New York's World Trade Center site Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, to separate the top landing of the Vesey Street stair remnant known as the Survivors Stairway. That staircase__37 stairs that once connected the outdoor plaza outside the twin towers to the street below__survived Sept. 11 and remains the only above-ground remnant of the trade center complex. After years of debate over whether and how to preserve the structure, though, the staircase was moved in 2008.
Rev. Brian Jordan sprinkles water on the September 11 cross during a ceremony, Saturday, July 23, 2011, in New York. After the ceremony, the cross was installed at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. It was discovered upright in the ruins of ground zero following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
In this aerial photo of July 28, 2011, a grove of trees surround massive square reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial in New York. The memorial will open to the public on Sept. 12, 2011. Out of the ashes of 9/11 has risen a vibrant neighborhood packed with new restaurants and hotels, places to live and spots to shop, along with many ways to pay respects to an area some worried would never come back. A decade after the attack on the World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan draws roughly 9 million of the city's nearly 50 million visitors a year, including the area around ground zero.
The World Financial Center is seen in the background as water flows in the south pool of the World Trade Center Memorial, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 in New York.
In this Sept. 11, 2004 file photo, the Tribute in Light shines over the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty in New York, on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The memorial was first presented on March 11, 2002, the six-month anniversary of the attacks, and has been presented by the Municipal Art Society every year since.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower collapses following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Bottom) Pedestrians cross Park Row in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower collapses following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Bottom) The skyscraper known as One World Trade Center, center, is under construction in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) A destroyed subway station near ground zero on the evening of Sept. 12, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. (Bottom) Pedestrians walk along Church Street in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York. Behind them is the tower known as Four World Trade Center.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts which once faced the soaring outer walls of the World Trade Center towers, after a terrorist attack on the twin towers of lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Bottom) The tower known as Four World Trade Center is under construction in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Medical and emergency workers, who are standing in front of the Millenium Hilton, look towards where the World Trade Center towers used to be, after a terrorist attack on the twin towers of lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Bottom) Pedestrians pass the Hilton Hotel on Church St. in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011, in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Broadway near ground zero on the evening of September 11, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. (Bottom) Pedestrians pass a McDonald's restaurant on Broadway in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011, in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) The World Trade Center destruction is shown in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York on Sept. 30, 2001. (Bottom) The tower known as Four World Trade Center is under construction in lower Manhattan, Aug. 9, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Emergency workers at ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. (Bottom) Pedestrians walk along Church Street past Century 21 clothing store in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011, in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) The south tower starts to collapse as smoke billows from both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York. (Bottom) The skyscraper known as One World Trade Center rises in the lower Manhattan skyline, Aug. 4, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) People covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center in New York. (Bottom) Pedestrians walk near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, Aug. 8, 2011 in New York.
This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. (Top) Smoke rises into the sky following the collapse of World Trade Center Towers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (Below) The skyscraper known as One World Trade Center, right, rises in lower Manhattan, Aug. 10, 2011 in New York.
In this July 30, 2011 file photo, One World Trade Center rises above the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty in New York. The tower will be 104 floors and 1,776 feet (541 meters) tall when completed. Ten years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center is rising from ground zero.





















































