Im devastated at what has happened in Afghanistan now, and cant help but feel that people there have been abandoned by the US and its allies.. What I remember most were the sounds and smells of the scene, the massive level of security, and the way that President Bush connected with the first responders still working at the site, photographer Win McNamee said. Thousands of survivors and first responders have been diagnosed with cancers resulting from the terrorist attack, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I assured her that I was O.K., and my building was not impacted. I was only out of the subway a few minutes, trying to negotiate police barriers, when someone shouted The towers are coming down! she recalled. Two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn. They had been married for only two and a half months. I try to live every day to the fullest, to honor their lives, and the lives of others who perished that day. A New York City firefighter calls for 10 more rescue workers to help as he works in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 14, 2001. Since the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center we were always prepared to leave the building whenever we felt threatened by any type of incident. In this photo, taken by Paul J. Richards, he was learning about the second. Look how beautiful the World Trade Center is! I told her. 11, 2001, a best-selling book published by the magazine. When the South Tower started to collapse, she ran behind the parked car on the left side of this photo. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. Then there was another loud bang. President Bush speaks to rescue workers, firefighters and police officers at the rubble of New Yorks ground zero, three days after the attacks. I finally got to make a phone call home, but my wife was teaching in school at the time so I just left a message that I was safe but didnt know when Id get home. A man stands in the rubble and calls out, asking if anyone needs help, after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower. This Now famous photograph has becoe iconic and ispired an article and documentary movie. I found myself outside my office with a number of co-workers. Shanken was drawn to the scene because of its irony: a welcome sign during an evacuation. Rescue workers move the body of the Rev. A minute later, Honda saw Borders and snapped a photo. It would be days before airline flights would resume, and when they finally did, the sight of planes taking off was eerily juxtaposed against the smoldering smoke that still rose from Lower Manhattan, he said. I was stunned to see that tower two had collapsed. Close. I dont know why these strangers shared their personal stories with me a total stranger other than they felt the very human need to connect and share their story, their memories, their grief, their loss.. WebWorld Trade Center Jumpers (WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT) 9:56 911FILES 9 11 INSIDE WTC WARNING GRAPHIC NEW FOOTAGE. It was then that I saw police officers or firefighters yelling and waving at us frantically to get out of the building, and we quickened our pace. There was a certain amount of warmth to the light. That was the phrase I kept saying to them one after another, and more than once people responded affirmatively, Yes, yes. . People walk across the Brooklyn Bridge as they flee Lower Manhattan on September 11. Reverence is about as close as I can get. Navy Times photographer Mark Faram captured the scene. Eventually the building stabilized. I just assumed it was a terrible accident. The photographs were shot among the WebAmerican Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.The hijackers deliberately crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on-board and ensuring the deaths of well over a thousand people who A few years ago, a man named Liam Enea got his hands on a photo album from his late relative. I asked them why, out of all the thousands of people who worked there, would they be calling me? As true professionals it took very little time before all NCSD tasks, functions and programs were back and running smoothly. If the first building hadn't essentially fallen straight down, its crash could have killed hundreds standing, like me, a few blocks away.". While the wound was quite serious, it did not appear to be life-threatening. Ill never forget the pure joy of seeing everyone again in our temporary conference room. As I left the area and started to walk up West Broadway I noticed a medical doctor standing in the doorway of his office looking at the towers. She was 28 at the time, working as a legal assistant at Bank of America in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. That is when I saw the men carrying Father Judge in a chair, Reuters photographer Shannon Stapleton said. Im saying to myself, Did (the towers collapse) ignite cancer cells in me?. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 carrying 92 people, speared into the 110-story north tower. The delis entrance is seen in the background. I looked into my office (office wall was floor-to-ceiling glass) and saw a gaping hole in the south side of WTC1. The perfectly blue sky went pitch black as a humongous cloud of thick dust blasted through the streets. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre were a familiar sight to New Yorkers for decades and for many they were a reassuring sight something on the lines of the Statue Of Liberty, they had become an icon of American spirit. I went in, and there was a small lobby where a few people were gathered, as confused as I was about what was happening.. September 11 forever changed the way we live.. Hundreds of firefighters and other rescue workers were peppered across the debris with fire hoses and buckets in hand, clearing out caverns looking for survivors.. (Photo: AP), The remaining tower of New York's World Trade Center, Tower 2, dissolves in a cloud of dust and debris about a half hour after the first twin tower collapsed September 11, 2001. This photo of Jenna Piccirillo and her young son, Vaughan, was among the first photos taken on September 11 by Alex Webb. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. It was really peaceful. Check out Military.com's original video series today. I told her Id call her again when I could. Having worked as a baggage handler at JFK airport for a summer (ironically for United Airlines of all companies), I knew what jet fuel smelled like. (Photo: Reuters), One side of the Pentagon buiding is exposed after a hijacked aircraft crashed into it on September 11, 2001. Bush, like almost everyone at the site, was very emotional, and he seemed to forge a true bond with the first responders, McNamee said. Collect, curate and comment on your files. The President excused himself a few minutes later and left the classroom. Some cropped the photo or used a sequence of two or three images, showing the plane exploding into the South Tower. Chief of staff Andrew Card interrupts President Bush at 9:07 a.m. during a school visit in Sarasota, Fla., to inform him that a second plane hit the World Trade Center. At that point it seemed better to get inside a building than to stay outside. After walking for almost an hour or so I finally made it to Penn Station. At sunrise, I made my way to the Hudson River coastal areas of Jersey City and Bayonne, New Jersey, said Dan Loh, who was working for the Associated Press. Bush left the school session and set off on a secretive hopscotch flight aboard Air Force One, stopping at an Air Force Base in Louisiana and NORAD headquarters in Nebraska before returning to the White House late in the afternoon. Firefighters battle flames at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. But she died of stomach cancer in 2015. Time stood still as the crowd turned their attention back towards Lower Manhattan and witnessed (the collapse) in disbelief and horror, the photographer said. Even a mental inventory of the things that were in my office that no longer existed. IE 11 is not supported. You have to remember there were no smartphones in 2001; I had no way to see this imagery up until this point, he said. And it was scary to see so many first responders in the midst of reconciling with the overwhelming nature of the situation. These strangers told me about their first trip to New York City, or when they took their child up to the observation deck of the Twin Towers, or, with regret, how they wished they had done it while they could, she said. The place felt like a bad dream or a movie set, photographer Preston Keres said. Sitting there in front of the TV, it was like a floodgate had opened, and my mind finally had a chance to deal with the tragedy and all the emotions that went with it. The lobby of the hotel had a big screen TV showing live action and replays of what was going on down town. It was clear a tremendous number of people had died, and it was clear that the level of tragedy was enormous. I have always been fascinated by the historical significance of photojournalism, particularly regarding September 11, and when I remembered in February that I had unseen photographs, I scanned and posted them to my Flickr page, Enea says. Within a short period of time, however, the lobby started to fill with people who were trying to evacuate that building. Picture from inside the World Trade Center during the attack. It was the early days of digital photography, and Franklin remembers going to a nearby hotel lobby to use a dial-up Internet connection and send his photos back to the office. 9/11 attack: 16 years on, the wound of the September 11 attack is still fresh in the minds and hearts of many. Enea has published the set of 38 found photos in an album over at Flickr. according to the Arlington Catholic Herald. WebFDNY Ladder 3 firetruck recovered from the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. It was the loudest bang I ever heard. 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