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More than 1,100 remain unidentified. Story by Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY • 2w. Nearly 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, New York City officials identified the remains of a Long Island man who was...
Sep 7, 2021 · Published: September 7, 2021 10:23am EDT. In the months after the 9/11 attack, which killed thousands of people and cost US$40 billion (£29 billion) in damages, the shock at the tower collapse ...
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Smoke covers a destroyed building at the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (Ron Agam/Getty Images) People make their way amid the debris ...
- Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania
- Reflect 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, Rosemead, California
- To Struggle Against World Terrorism Sculpture, Bayonne, New Jersey
- First Responders Memorial, Oak Lawn, Illinois
- Postcards, Staten Island, New York City
- Memorial Labyrinth, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Moving Memories, Phoenix, Arizona
In the early hours of September 11, United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport and traveled westbound toward San Francisco. Forty-six minutes after takeoff, a group of al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked the plane and made a u-turn over Ohio, pointing the Boeing 757-222 in the direction of Washington, D.C. However, their attempt was t...
Many artists have created captivating artworks across the United States to commemorate September 11. One of them is Heath Satow, a Los Angeles-based sculptor who built Reflect, a large-scale metal structure comprised of two hands lifting a single 10-foot, 500-pound steel I-beam pulled from the World Trade Center rubble. To create the piece, which w...
Moscow-based sculptor Zurab Tsereteli was a world away when he watched the news unfold of the United States being under attack. Several weeks later, he traveled to Ground Zero where the remains of the Twin Towers still smoldered. It was then that he solidified his desire to create a monument memorializing that deadly day. The result is To Struggle ...
In 2011, Erik Blome was an artist-in-residence for the city of Oak Lawn, Illinois. During that time, he set up a temporary studio to create his First Responders Memorial. He built the memorial using four twisted 22-foot I-beams pulled from the wreckage of the Twin Towers and escorted from New York City to Oak Lawn by a team of local firefighters an...
Of thenearly 3,000people who perished on 9/11, 274 were residents of Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs. This memorial designed by Masayuki Sono, a local architect, is dedicated to them. Inspired by the art of origami paper folding, the piece is comprised of two massive fiber glass structures that resemble folded postcards. Postcar...
Labyrinths are popular places for anyone seeking silence and reflection, so it’s no surprise that there would be one built as a way to commemorate 9/11. Completed in 2003, the Memorial Labyrinth is tucked away on the Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, ten miles west of downtown Boston. Although not much is written about the laby...
Utilizing Phoenix’s roughly 300 days of sunshine, the Moving Memories monument by architect Eddie Jones and coLAB Studio, a cooperative of artists and architects based in nearby Tempe, changes throughout the day. The circular structure, which is located in downtown Phoenix, is made up of a series of stainless-steel panels featuring 54 laser-cut ins...
Sep 11, 2019 · Brian Gaston, policy director, Majority Leader Richard Armey: No one knew what to do. Brian Gunderson, chief of staff, Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Texas): Communications on September 11th ...
Sep 11, 2021 · People tie ribbons to the fence at St. Paul’s Chapel near the National September 11 Memorial & Museum during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Saturday, Sept ...
Apr 12, 2023 · The Pentagon quickly rebuilt after the traumatic events of Sept. 11, 2001, and an important addition to the grounds is the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial honoring those who were lost.,
