We will Remember them

23 years ago many of us still remember how our lives changed forever. We lost our innocence, but we gained a strength we never knew we had. 

Some families who lost loved ones will never fully recover from the events of that tragic day.  

About 40% of victims from the World Trade Center have still not been identified. We pray they will one day, and their loved ones maybe will have some comfort finally.

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Schedule for annual 9/11 remembrance, how you can participate

A "9/11: A Day That Changed America" photo exhibit and a pickup truck that the New York-New Jersey Port Authority used in rescue efforts following the attacks will be displayed Friday, Sept. 11, at the downtown museum, 303 Pearl St. NW. That same day, area boy scouts will salute the American flag outside the museum from sunrise until sunset.

Museum admission will be free 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11.

• 7:18 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Area boy scouts start saluting the flag at sunrise. Public participation is welcome at any time.

• 8:40 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Honor Guard lowers the flag to half-staff

• 8:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, There's a moment of silence and remembrance

• 8:46 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, A bell rings one time, at the time when a plane crashed into the first World Trade Center tower

• 8:50 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell speaks

• 9:03 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, A bell rings one time, at the time when a plane crashed into the second World Trade Center tower

• 9:37 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, A bell rings one time, at the time when a plane crashed into the Pentagon

• 10:03 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, A bell rings one time, at the time United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania

• noon Friday, Sept. 11, a public ceremony honors police, fire, emergency medical service and military personnel

• 12:30-2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, there's a K-9 unit demonstration with meet and greet at Ah-Nab-Awen Park

• 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, a public ceremony includes a performance by The Salvation Army Brass Band, remarks from Lt. Gov. Brian Calley and President Ford Field Service Council President Wayman Britt, a flag presentation to the parents of Army Spc. 4th Class Brian K. Derks, who was killed in action Aug. 13, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq, and a flag-raising to full staff

• 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, the scouts end their salute at sunset

Honor the victims and heroes of 9/11!

Moments of silence will mark the 8:46 a.m. impact of American Airlines Flight 11's crash into the north tower and the 9:03 a.m. crash of United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center's south tower.

The 9/11 attack killed 2,753 people in New York, including 403 police and firefighters.

At the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed at 9:37 a.m. on September 11, President Obama will speak at a private observance for family members of the 184 people who died there.

In southwestern Pennsylvania, it is only expected to take 18 minutes to lay a wreath and read the names of 40 people, beginning at 9:45 a.m. and ending at 10:03 a.m. That is the time United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville.

A bomb sniffing dog named Sirius also died at the WTC.

In 2007, the New York City medical examiner's office began to add people to the official death toll who died of illnesses caused by exposure to dust from the site. The first such victim was a woman who had died in February 2002 from a lung condition. In 2009, a man who died in 2008 was added, and in 2011 a man who died in 2010.

Many more people have died since as a result of exposure to 9/11 dust at Ground Zero.

Inside The Twin Towers Film

Inside The Twin Towers.

This special award winning documentary film uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks.

In the US, it premiered on the Discovery Channel on September 3, 2006, narrated by Harry Pritchett. In the UK, it premiered on BBC One on September 7, 2006, narrated by Terence Stamp.

Shown here in 10 parts:









Parts 5-10

Remembering 9/11 Around The World

NEW YORK

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived at Ground Zero this afternoon alongside former President George W Bush and his wife Laura. There they met families of victims, with all four warmly embracing them alongside plaques bearing the names of the dead.

The 10th anniversary ceremony began with the arrival of bagpipers and drummers and the singing of the national anthem by a youth chorus. But the world fell silent at 8.46am local time for a minute's silence to remember the horrific moment American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower.

It was followed by President Obama's reading from Psalm 46, which begins, "God is my refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble".

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg then introduced the reading of the names of each of the 2,983 people who died in the attacks.

After the New York ceremony President Obama flew to rural western Pennsylvania to remember the sacrifice of those on United Airlines Flight 93.


ENGLAND

Many of the families of the 67 British victims who died in the 9/11 attacks have attended services in London and New York.

Members of around 30 families who lost loved ones in the twin towers took part in a ceremony at the American Embassy in central London, while members of another 10 families took part in the service at Ground Zero.

Speaking at the service outside the US Embassy, the Prince of Wales said the families had to endure an "eternity of continuing, awful, agony".

"None of us will ever forget where we were or what we were doing when on that otherwise ordinary day, and out of a clear blue sky, came so much premeditated death and destruction on scale and in a way that shocked the entire world," he said.

"At the heart of those endless and rather impersonal news reports lay the shattered lives and hopes of all those who we join here today both in London and New York."

Ceremonies of remembrance also took place at Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, while Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a sculpted memorial, made from steel recovered from Ground Zero in Battersea Park, west London.

Washington Museum 9/11 Display

9/11 victims' phones go on display for the 10th anniversary

The charred mobile phones of 9/11 victims are going on display in a chilling exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary of the atrocity. The devices, which were still heard ringing as desperate family members tried to contact loved ones trapped in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center, are a haunting reminder of the 2001 attack in New York.

Rescue workers could also hear the phones ringing while they searched for bodies.

A new exhibition at Newseum in Washington will display 60 pieces of evidence from the FBI's terror trials. A red wallet belonging to Ruth McCourt, of Connecticut, is also on show. Ruth and her four-year-old daughter were among the 60 passengers and crew on Flight 175 who were killed.

Pieces of the engine and landing gear of United Airlines Flight 175 are also on display along with the damaged antenna from the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Live Camera at the World Trade Center

The 9/11 Memorial is taking shape as the time approaches for the 10th anniversary on September 9th 2011.

The One World Trade Center Tower in New York City will eventually reach 105 stories tall, and stands overlooking the 9/11 Memorial Pools.

You can view the World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial progress online here, and even watch the building construction happening live on camera here.

In Memory of Melissa Harrington-Hughes

Melissa Marie Harrington (aka Melissa Harrington Hughes) was 31 years old and from San Francisco, California.

On September 11, 2001, Melissa was in New York for one day attending a financial conference for Risk Waters Group from Slam Dunk Networks Inc. Lisa was on the 101st floor in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.



Melissa made a tearful call to her husband, Sean Hughes in San Francisco, but missed him as he was asleep. The full message she left said, "Sean it's me, I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. A plane hit the building or a bomb went off, they don't know. But there's lots of smoke, and I just wanted you to know I love you always."



West Springfield Remembers: A monument on the town common remembers the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including West Springfield native Melissa Marie Harrington.

A few hundred people commemorated the 10th anniversary of the attacks with a solemn ceremony on the Park Street Common on Sunday morning, its focal point a monument to native Melissa Harrington Hughes.

The ceremony featured honor guards from the police and fire departments, music by the West Springfield High School and middle school bands, speeches, remembrances and poems about Harrington-Hughes and the other 3,000 people killed that day 10 years ago, which includes more than 20 from Western Massachusetts.

9/11 victim No. 2753‎

Article from Boston News:

A man who died last year of lung disease was added to the official list of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks

New York City's medical examiner ruled that Jerry Borg of Manhattan, 63, who died in December 2010, was killed by complications caused by a lung condition he got from inhaling dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The ruling is a rarity. Thousands of people have blamed health problems on trade center dust, but Borg is only the third victim to be added to the medical examiner's list of Sept. 11 victims.

All three people, including Borg, were working downtown on the day of the attacks and became caught in the dense cloud of pulverized concrete and glass that billowed over lower Manhattan when the twin towers fell.

Felicia Dunn Jones, a 42-year-old civil rights lawyer, fell ill immediately after the attacks, was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, and was dead within five months. Her death was not ruled as officially caused by the terrorist attacks until 2007.

Leon Heyward, 45, died in 2008 of lymphoma, an illness that has not been conclusively linked to trade center dust, but Charles Hirsch, chief medical examiner, ruled in early 2009 that his cancer was complicated by sarcoidosis.

The death brings the official count of World Trade Center deaths to 2,753. All victims of the terrorist attacks have been classified as homicide victims.

In Memory of Melissa Cándida Doi

Melissa Cándida Doi was 32 years old and from Throgs Neck, New York. (Born: Bronx, New York). Melissa worked as a manager at IQ Financial Systems on the 83rd floor in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

When the first plane struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Melissa was in a state of confusion. Originally, Melissa and her coworkers thought that it was a bomb that had gone off. After making their way down several flights of stairs, Melissa and her coworkers were told it was safe to go back up.

On the 44th floor the elevator opened and it was full and the only person to get on was Melissa. Melissa made her way back up the tower, not knowing the dangers she faced in doing so.

At 9.03am United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the southern facade of South Tower of the World Trade Center, impacting between the 77th and 85th floors.


Recording of part of the telephone call between Ms. Melissa Doi and operator Barnes

On that tragic morning, Melissa made a desperate 9-1-1 phone call from the 83rd floor of the South Tower. In it she is heard saying to the operator, "The floor is completely engulfed. We're on the floor, and we can't breathe, and it's very, very, very hot." Later Melissa says, "Can you stay on the line with me please? I feel like I'm dying."

The full call is 31 minutes long. After the first 4 minutes the operator can be heard as she tries to console Melissa, who apparently died while on the phone.

Her remains were found 3 years later.

Family Members Reservations for National Memorial at the World Trade Center

Families of 9/11 victims will get priority access to the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center amid high expected demand for visitation.

Because construction will be ongoing at the site through the 10th Anniversary of the attacks this year, advance reservations will be needed to gain access to the area.

Memorial President Joe Daniels: "There is a need to manage capacity on the plaza, and advance reservations are required for all visitors for safety purposes. However, your experience, as families of those whose loved ones were taken too soon, is of the deepest importance to us."

The note says that beginning July 6, families of the 9/11 and 1993 Trade Center attacks will get to secure the advance reservations.

A dedicated phone number for the purpose will be sent to the families in July.
Family members will also be able to make reservations online at 911 Memorial Site and will have a separate entry area.

10 Years Later - Lest We Forget

Firstly, I would just like to say I am from England and I didn't know anyone connected to what happened that terrible day in America on 11th, September 2001. Like many millions of people across the world I watched it all happen live on TV. That day in New York and all those horrible events have affected me ever since.

It is now 10 years since the 9/11 attacks in America, and it only seems like yesterday. For several years I have been studying the events of 9/11: looking at images, watching videos, reading articles, and remembering the victims. I feel so sorry for those people who suffered such terror.

What I can't get out of my mind are those people waving from the windows and holes in the WTC, those people who decided to jump from the towers, and those who made phone calls just before they died.

When I hear Melissa Doi's and Betty Ann Ong's telephone calls, I cry. Kevin Cosgrove's desperate 911 call from the South Tower of the WTC as it collapses is truly terrifying. The site of Edna Cintron (the Waving Woman), makes me feel so helpless. The pain and terror that these people felt still haunts me. I often think about them. It's a strange feeling really, it's almost as if I knew them personally. Today, I just wish I could help or speak to them, and say hey, I care, I am thinking about you today - 10 years later.

In total nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001

On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in Washington, D.C.

The Innocent Victims
2,753 civilians at the World Trade Center.
40 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93.
59 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 77.
125 people in the Pentagon.

World Trade Center 9/11
20,000 body parts were recovered from Ground Zero. Up to 200 remains were linked to a single person. Only 293 intact bodies were found. Only twelve could be identified by sight. After 10 years, there are still NO remains for 1,123 of the victims who died at the World Trade Center.

I will never forget those poor people who suffered, and my heart goes out to their families -

Remember 9/11: New Books and DVDs

Best 9/11 DVDs

9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition
This is the best documentary on 9/11 I have ever seen. I have watched it many times, and it actually gives me some comfort. It makes me feel I am not alone in my thoughts, and that other people all over the world also remember those brave people who lost their lives.




102 Minutes That Changed America
Winner of 3 Emmy Awards, this documentary will distinguish itself from other 9/11 programmes by using only unique and rarely seen and heard archive footage to document the 102 minutes between the first attack on the World Trade Center to the collapse of the second tower. This will be a lasting document whose unique material comes from a range of non traditional sources, including amateur photography, video, and film; FDNY, NYPD, Port Authority and emergency dispatch radio recordings, photography and video; recorded voicemails; audio/video diaries; footage and stills broadcast or published outside the United States; electronic messages; surveillance camera footage; and outtakes culled from raw network footage.




Best 9/11 Books

Tower Stories: Amazon Review
If you're looking for an excellent book about 9/11, then look no further. This book will give the reader a clear idea of what it must've been like to actually be there in Manhatten and see the carnage first-hand. Read the true stories of men & women who experienced 9/11 and learn about how it has changed their lives forever. See the horrors from their perspective; the fires, the smoke, the debris, the falling bodies, the pandemonium, the collapse the the towers, and the aftermath. This book is a must have.




102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers




A Place of Remembrance: Official Book of the National September 11 Memorial (9/11 Memorial)

Product Description
On September 11, 2011, the world will be watching as the National September 11 Memorial opens on the site of the World Trade Center. With photographs and architectural plans never before published, paired with comments in the very voices of those who witnessed the event, those who struggled in its shadow for days and months after, and those who have dedicated the years since to rebuilding a place of hope and meditation at Ground Zero, this book will stand apart from all the rest on the tenth anniversary of that world-changing event. Heavily illustrated and elegantly designed, the book recalls the excitement and symbolism of the Twin Towers, the horror and chaos of the attack of 9/11, the fierce devotion and exhaustion as rescue of living victims became recovery of remains. But it also carries on from that date in history to tell the inside story of the long, complex, and sometimes contentious efforts to turn eight acres of Downtown Manhattan into a lasting memorial to those lost in New York, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. A solemn reminder, a historic keepsake, and a fascinating read, this is the official book published by and about the National September 11 Memorial, created by those who have been working for years to honor those who died that day. A special fold-out lists all the names of the victims, making the book itself an enduring memorial to those who died on September 11.