9/11

September 11

2001 terrorist attacks date

• World Trade CenterDestroyed NYC skyscraper complex
• Twin TowersDestroyed NYC landmark duo
• PentagonU.S. military headquarters

hijacking · terrorism · Osama bin Laden · Flight 93 · Shanksville · box cutters · impact · collapse · fireball · cockpit

first responders

Personnel arriving at emergencies initially

• firefightersEmergency personnel combating blazes
• FDNYNYC fire service
• NYPDMajor city's police abbreviation

rescue · evacuation · heroism · survivors · search and rescue · Ground Zero · rubble · bucket brigade · triage · emergency

Never Forget

Permanent mental retention

• memorialThing preserving remembrance
• museumPublic exhibit space
• namesPersonal identifying words

victims · tribute · anniversary · remembrance · Freedom Tower · One World Trade Center · eternal flame · ceremony · moment of silence · light beams

Afghanistan

Central Asian landlocked nation

• IraqMiddle Eastern republic
• Patriot ActCounterterrorism surveillance legislation
• TSAAirport screening agency

intelligence · surveillance · airport security · anthrax · counterterrorism · military · deployment · occupation · regime change · coalition

trauma

Lasting psychological wound

• collective memoryCommunity's shared historical recall
• news coverageJournalistic attention to events
• live televisionProgramming shown as recorded

jumpers · United 93 · documentaries · conspiracy theories · truther · inside job · zeitgeist · Islamophobia · backlash · unity

• US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
• New York CityManhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island
• iconic momentsmoon landing, first flight, D-Day, Titanic sinking, MLK speech
• 2000s HistorySeptember 11, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Arab Spring, Great Recession
• 2000s PoliticsTrump, Obama, Biden, Brexit, Putin
• Cultural Momentsmoon landing, Woodstock, Princess Diana death, Obama election, Trump election