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"Attack On The United States-2"
The north tower of
New York's World Trade Center
explodes as it begins to collapse after terrorists crashed two
airplanes in the twin towers Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001.
The south tower of
the World Trade Center begins to
collapse following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Smoke billows from
one of the towers of the World
Trade Center and flames and debris explode from the
second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In one of the
most horrifying attacks ever against the United States,
terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center
in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin
110-story towers.
Photo shows the
point of impact where a
plane crashed into the North tower of the World Trade Center
in New York City early September 11, 2001. Both towers
were hit by planes crashing into the buildings.
Shortly after this photo was taken this tower fell.
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor,
three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and
New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday,
demolishing the two 110-story towers that symbolize
U.S. financial might.
This is the first
in a series of three images
showing the northern tower of the World Trade
Center collapsing in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
A ball of fire
explodes from one of the
towers at the World Trade Center in New York after a
plane crashed into it in this image made from television
Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. The aircraft was the second
to fly into the tower Tuesday morning.
The World Trade
Center tower two turns
into a mushroom cloud as it falls to the ground after
a fire September 11, 2001. Both towers of the World Trade
Center have fallen after planes crashed into the buildings.
Three hijacked planes crashed into major U.S. landmarks
on Tuesday, destroying both of New York's mighty
twin towers and plunging the Pentagon in Washington into
flames, in an unprecedented assault on key symbols of U.S.
military and financial power.
The twin towers of
the World Trade Center
in New York City burn early September 11, 2001.
Three hijacked planes crashed into major U.S. landmarks
on Tuesday, destroying both of New York's twin towers
and plunging the Pentagon in Washington into flames,
in an unprecedented assault on key symbols of U.S.
military and financial power.
The remaining tower
of New York's
World Trade Center burns after the first twin tower
collapsed September 11, 2001. Three hijacked planes
crashed into major U.S. landmarks on Tuesday,
destroying both of New York's mighty twin towers
and plunging the Pentagon in Washington into flames,
in an unprecedented assault on key symbols of U.S.
military and financial power. The pictures were made
from across the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey.
In
memory of
The World
Trade Center
New York, New
York
Built 1970 - 1977
Minoru Yamaski & Associates, Architect, with Emery Roth and Sons
Designed for strength, demolished by terrorist attack
on September 11, 2001
"The
World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace."
--Minoru
Yamasaki, chief architect
Copyright © Mary Ann
Sullivan
Digital Imaging Project
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
The World Trade Center consisted of two 110-story buildings (known as the "Twin Towers") and five smaller buildings. The buildings were light, economical structures designed to keep the wind bracing on the outside surfaces. Architect Minoru Yamasaki studied over a hundred models before adopting the twin tower plan. Plans for a single tower were rejected because the size was cumbersome and impractical. Plans for several towers "looked too much like a housing project," Yamasaki said. The World Trade Center Towers were among the tallest buildings in the world, and contained nine million square feet of office space.
Construction
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Tower One was 1,368 feet (414 meters) tall
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Tower Two was 1,362 feet (412 meters) tall
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The Tower facades were constructed of aluminum and steel lattice
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The Tower floors were prefabricated trussed steel, 33 inches deep
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The Towers used tube construction with closely spaced columns and beams on the outer walls.
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There were no interior columns in the Tower office spaces
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The Towers rested on solid bedrock. The foundations extended more than 70 feet below ground.
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Each tower contained 104 passenger elevators
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Each tower had 21,800 windows.
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About 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center complex
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Photos of World
Trade Center / Twin Towers
Crashes, Explosions & Collapses in New York City NYC
September
11, 2001
All photos © 2001 Sara K. Schwittek - email: sks@foureyes.com
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 List of desparately needed items for the workers at Ground Zero |
 Lighted candle memorial on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on 9/11/01 |
 Evening of Sept. 11, 2001 View from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade |
 Evening of Sept. 11, 2001 View from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade |
 Unimaginable - Evening of Sept. 11, 2001 |
 Statue of Liberty in background - barely visible through smoke |
 Evening of Sept. 11, 2001 View from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade 24 hour work lights for rescue |
 Lighted candle memorial on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on 9/11/01 |
 Lighted candle memorial on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on 9/11/01 |
 The view from our office the next morning |
 View the next morning from the Promenade |
 Sept. 11, 2001 |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Melted candle wax from the memorials |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade The colors remind me of the diversity that makes NYC such a beautiful place |
 American flag hung from the railing of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, facing Lower Manhattan |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Candle and flower memorials |
 An unimaginable & unbelievable day |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Flower memorial overlooking Lower Manhattan |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Flower memorial overlooking Lower Manhattan |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Flower memorial overlooking Lower Manhattan |
 Sept. 11, 2001 - Another view out my office window of the Manhattan Bridge and The Empire State Building |
 Sept. 12, 2001 - The sun still shines on NYC The Brooklyn Bridge |
 Our local firehouse loses eight firefighters |
 Beautiful American flag |
 Missing: "Gennie", 102nd Fl, WTC 2 |
 Sept. 12, 2001: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Flower memorial with flag |
 American flag displayed proudly in SoHo, NY |
 Steel rubble taken away from WTC Ground Zero |
 Steel rubble taken away from WTC Ground Zero |
 Steel rubble taken away from WTC Ground Zero |
 Sept. 22, 2001 - Broadway & Vesey St. |
 Loney Woolworth Building |
 The Twin Towers once stood behind |
 Lower Manhattan - just blocks away from Ground Zero |
 Sept. 22, 2001 - Hummer parked at Woolworth Building |
 The Manhattan Bridge |
 The Manhattan Bridge |
 Lonely view toward Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn Bridge in front |
 American flag at half-mast on Brooklyn Bridge |
 Patriotism in Brooklyn Heights |
 Empty traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge |
 View where the Towers once so gracefully stood |
 View at Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge - the air still smells of smoldering ruin |
 An altered skyline |
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 I LOVE NY - more than ever |
 American flags everywhere |
 I LOVE NY - City of Heroes |
 Brooklyn Heights Firehouse - FDNY "Still the greatest job on earth" |
 Flowers for the eight firefighter who gave their lives for us at our local Brooklyn Heights firehouse |
 Fire engine at Local Brooklyn Heights Firehouse |
All
photos ©2001 Sara K. Schwittek - email: sks@foureyes.com
Families of the missing clutch photos -- and hope
September 13, 2001 Posted: 11:59 PM EDT (0359 GMT)
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- They stand by the hundreds outside the armory in Manhattan, holding pictures and hoping for word of their relatives and friends who were in or near the twin towers of the World Trade Center that crumbled under a terrorist attack.
Many of them, bleary-eyed from grief and worry, told stories of how they last heard from their loved ones, many making last-minute calls from within the burning 107-story buildings.
One woman said her friend, Sadie Ette, was on the 106th floor of the north tower, the first building that was struck by a hijacked jetliner shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
"She said, 'Oh, God, please save me,'" her friend said, clinging to a picture of her friend. "She was screaming that she was trapped and couldn't get out. She said, 'I don't know what to do, I'm coughing, the heat is coming. I need water. I need water.' And the phone dropped."
Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the list of missing had grown to 4,763 people.
Families have been trapped in limbo since Tuesday's attack -- not certain whether to mourn the missing person or continue hoping that their wives, husbands, sisters, brothers or other relatives are alive.
Most carried homemade fliers with pictures and phone numbers. The posters were taped to police barricades, windows and telephone poles.
"We just have to find her. We know we will," said one woman holding a photo of her sister, Margaret Echtermann. "We covered all the hospitals."
Thousands have lined up to go inside the armory that has been converted into a center for family members near Gramercy Park.
There, they fill out the more than half-dozen pages of questions about their missing loved one. Questions such as color of eyes, hair, height, weight. And questions about the size and inscriptions of wedding bands, the color and length of fingernails. All aimed at identifying any recovered remains.
Once they tell everything they know about the person, they are allowed to examine two lists, one of the victims that have been hospitalized and another list of the remains that have been identified.
"I think everybody has hope," said one man searching for his brother-in-law. "But I think everybody is prepared to face what they have to face."
Many are haunted by the last words from their family members and friends in the moments during and after two hijacked planes slammed into the landmark twin towers, setting off an inferno that caused the buildings to collapse into a mountain of twisted metal and debris.
Michael Rodriguez said his sister, Lisa, called crying hysterically as she tried to leave the second tower as it burned.
"We don't know if she took the stairs or the elevator," he said. "She was in tower two on the 89th floor. When I got over there the building started collapsing so I had to run away."
The stories of others were similar -- a man looking for his brother who had just bought a new house for his wife and 7-month-old daughter; a woman who talked to her sister who was on the 94th floor of the first tower minutes before it exploded into flames -- all now frantically searching for any shred of evidence that might give them hope of finding their loved ones alive.
The anguish of the families is so great that it draws tears from reporters trying to cover the scene.
"I'm trying to keep the faith and I'm trying to search for him -- I want him to come home," said Milsa Riveras of her missing husband, Isaias.
It was her second trip through this type of nightmare because Isaias had also been working in the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing.
| New York City skyline, before two planes crashed into World Trade Center at 8:45am September 11, 2001. | |
| 8"x10" Picture of New York City skyline, September 11, 2001, with $20 contribution to The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation |
| "Terror Hits Home" Images of the destruction of the World Trade Center 12 Page Photo Essay click on pictures to see full-sized originals at time.com |
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A fiery blasts rocks the World
Trade Center after being hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City |
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An aircraft, at right, is seen
as it is about to fly into the World Trade Center. The aircraft was the second to fly into the tower Tuesday morning. |
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The damage done by the aircraft to the World Trade Center. |
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People in front of New York's
St. Patrick's Cathedral react with horror as they look down Fifth Avenue toward the World Trade Center. |
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People run for cover as the
first of the two World Trade Center Towers collapses. |
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The south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. |
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World Trade Center tower two falls to the ground. |
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A frame grab from the Spanish channel TVE shows people on a New York street as the second tower of the World Trade Center collapses. |
| People flee the collapse of World Trade Center Tower. | |
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Pedestrians flee the area of
the World Trade Center as the center's south tower crashes. |
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Remaining NY's World Trade Center tower dissolves in cloud of dust & debris about 1/2 hour after first twin tower collapsed. |
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Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as New York is shrouded in smoke after two planes crashed into World Trade Center. |
| Click HERE, to read the Times "Day of Infamy" Special Report. |
| Manhatten, New York, USA after 11 September, 2001 |
