#911

#911

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It was a solemn morning across the Bay Area as victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were remembered. The San Francisco Fire Department held its remembrance ceremony at the Public Safety Building, marking 24 years since the attack. Names of 343 firefighters and 8 EMS providers from FDNY were read aloud. In all, 2,977 people died during the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania during al-Qaeda hijackings.

Each year, hundreds come together at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, where the Twin Towers once stood, and reflect on one of the great catastrophes to take place on American soil. That tradition continued Thursday morning, with moments of silence marking the painful sequence of the attacks that happened 24 years ago, but for many, seem like they occurred only yesterday.

The immediate few hours after the World Trade Center's Twin Towers collapsed during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were likely the darkest in the city's history. We must never forget the nearly 3,000 people murdered in the heinous attacks 24 years ago today, and in the years that followed due to conflict and disease related to recovery work at Ground Zero.

Thursday marks 24 years since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that forever changed New York City, the nation, and the world. On that tragic morning, al Qaeda hijackers crashed four passenger planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, the Pentagon in Virginia, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost in the 2001 attacks, along with the six lives taken in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The New York Public Library has acquired a massive collection of more than 1,200 hours of video documenting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, its immediate aftermath, and the subsequent design and construction of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. The CameraPlanet archive, which consists of footage recorded by more than 130 New Yorkers using consumer cameras, captures the havoc and devastation of the attacks, as well as the resilience of New Yorkers during one of their most challenging moments in history.

What began as a local news breaker on a clear blue-sky morning in lower Manhattan soon became one of the darkest days in American history, and an hour-long streaming special that premiered in 2021, "Eyewitness to 9/11: Behind the Lens," documents the heart-pounding, moment-by-moment response of the Eyewitness News team at WABC-TV, with never-before-seen footage from that day and dozens of powerful interviews that resonate with raw emotion.

At the beginning of this century, there were many critics of the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, the American use of torture, and the prolonged U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, but War on Terror proponents always had a ready answer: 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil. The American response to that fateful day was an unapologetic carte blanche, with Vice President Dick Cheney even vowing that the U.S. would work on the "dark side" henceforth. The rules had changed. So would morality.

The Michael Kiefer Swim-Paddle-Run honors FDNY firefighter Michael Kiefer, who died on September 11th. This event is meant to challenge participants and celebrate his legacy.

'You don't have enough respect for the sanctity of 9/11' is such a ridiculously out of touch and frankly boomer ass take in 2025. 9/11 has been a punchline for over a decade, ppl are having 9/11 themed parties and there are 9/11 parody t shirts and memes all over.

Well, it officially happened. It's the last day on this lot. 9-1-1, part of the legacy. Stage 6, I'll miss ya. Seven years. That's crazy.

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Richard L. Armitage, who served as the No. 2 official at the State Department during the 9/11 attacks and subsequent wars, has died at 79.