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Remembering 9/11 and what it meant through images

Firefighter Tony James cries while attending the
funeral service for New York Fire Department Chaplain Rev. Mychal Judge, in
front of the St. Francis of Assisi Church September 15, 2001 in New York
City. Judge died while giving the last rites to a fireman in the collapse
of the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was destroyed after both
the landmark towers were struck by two hijacked planes in an alleged
terrorist attack on September 11. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty
Images)


The remains of
the World Trade Center stands amid the debris following the terrorist
attack on the building in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP
Photo/Alexandre Fuchs)


A person falls from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center
as another clings to the outside, left center, while smoke and fire billow
from the building, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists crashed two hijacked
airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story
towers Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)


Messages scrawled
in debris dust on the ladder truck door of Ladder Company 24 join a growing
memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 in New York City to the firefighers
from the company who lost their lives in the suspected terrorist attack on
the World Trade Center. Ladder Company 24 lost 7 firemen in the attack,
including Fire Chaplain Father Mychal Judge. (AP Photo/Amy
Sancetta)


Photo dated
11 September 2001 shows US President George W. Bush (R) being informed by
his chief of staff Andrew Card of the attacks on the World Trade Center in
New York during an early morning school reading event in Sarasota, Florida.
The fifth anniversary of September 11 finds the United States bloodied by
foreign war, polarized politically and coping with terrorism’s curbs on
freedom which helped define American life. AFP PHOTO/FILES/Paul J. RICHARDS
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This 11 September 2001 file photo
shows Marcy Borders covered in dust as she takes refuge in an office
building after one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed in New York.
Borders was caught outside on the street as the cloud of smoke and dust
enveloped the area. The woman was caught outside on the street as the cloud
of smoke and dust enveloped the area. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit
should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)


NEW YORK
– SEPTEMBER 8: The “Tribute in Light” memorial as seen from Bayonne, New
Jersey, consists of two shafts of light to represent the World Trade Center
Twin Towers, is tested before the fifth anniversary of 9/11 terrorist
attacks September 8, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Sylwia
Kapuscinski/Getty Images)


NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER
11, 2001: (FILE PHOTO) A fiery blasts rocks the south tower of the World
Trade Center as the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes
into the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. Almost two years
after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the New York Port
Authority is releasing transcripts on August 28, 2003 of emergency calls
made from inside the twin towers. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty
Images)


NEW YORK- SEPTEMBER 3: A wax
replica of Thomas Franklin’s photograph from September 11, is seen at
Madame Tussaud’s wax museum September 3, 2002 in New York City. The replica
is to be part of an exhibit at the museum called “Hope: Humanity and
Heroism.” (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)


The New York newspapers Wednesday, Sept.
12, 2001, show coverage of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
(AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)


Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade
Center buildings in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Planes crashed into
the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in
a horrific scene of explosions and fires that lead to the collapse of the
110-story buildings. The Empire State building is seen in the foreground.
(AP Photo/Patrick Sison)


 
Emergency workers at ground
zero on Sept. 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center in New York City.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)


(AP Photo/Gulnara
Samoilova)


FILE – In this Sept.
14, 2001 file photo, President George W. Bush embraces firefighter Bob
Beckwith while standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center
buildings in New York as rescue efforts continue. (AP Photo/Doug
Mills)

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