This book is a memoir about September 11th, 2001. It talks about the tragedy from this day, has many details about the locations that were targeted, the planes hijacked, and also the aftermath of this event. I was also able to include some of the survivors point of view on this tragic day of 2001. It also has a bit of the events that took place and the lives that were changed following the attacks. This book is in no way trying to take away experience from the people who actually lived this tragedy, it is only to inform people on how it was on this precise day from the different locations who were targeted. This book is mostly to inform young adults, like me, who were not formally thought about this historical event.
The Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history. Read about the events leading up to these horrific attacks and find out how they have shaped our nation today. Inside you will find out: Why the terrorists wanted to attack the United States; How people from around the country came together to aid victims of the attacks; And how new laws and government agencies have changed life in the United States since the attacks. Cornerstones of FreedomTM brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments. America history with engaging text primary source materials historical photographs. Book jacket.
"The real voices of 9/11 are here, and they will echo down through history as a haunting reminder of loss and hope, courage and heroism." -- Tom Brokaw On September 11, 2001, waves of shock rippled through the country as the United States came under terrorist attack. Never Forget collects the unbelievably moving stories of survivors, rescue workers, volunteers, family members, and friends whose loved ones perished on that day -- from the moments the planes first struck the Twin Towers through the painstaking recovery efforts. As these unforgettable stories reveal, many Americans transcended their own confusion and despair to help one another escape, to offer one another kindness, and to affirm life in the face of catastrophe. This concert of voices shows, as never before, the heartbreaking grief and slow, but uplifting, healing process that the people of this nation have experienced individually and as one.
A Letter from the Author I have been working on this book which is very dear to me, along with having the satisfaction of the finish project, being prove I can honesty say I wasn't sure if I could really even accomplished this. But the finish project says something very much opposite that's why all the more I complete the bigger space in my heart I got for this book. It's a book about the tragedy surrounding the September 11 2001 attack in our own country. I collected so much needed information pertaining to the terrorist attack September 11, 2001. There is not anything like this. But you will find quite a few on the topic but it won't all be in one book. And the little children won't be able to under stand what is going on in their world. My book contains most wanted, names of the victims that lost their lives. Faith much more information is in the book of about 500 pages. That leads me to the title of the book "Never Forget" secondary title "Always Remember." I know that you will just love this book. What a special treasure to have in remembrance of the September. 11, 2001 a book full of colorful bright pages. I can honesty tell you that I have completed what I set out to do Over the last four in a half years I've been dedicated to this project that I've felt I needed to complete not only for me, but for many other people just like me out in the World. The more I completed the stronger the urges were for me to share this project with as many people as I could touch in one way or another. I wanted as many as possible to review this book maybe give a good or even bad review, So they can have the knowledge of why we're at war and secondly and most importantly that all those affected by the tragedy that their names will not go in vain or never be forgotten. I know there are hundreds of thousands of people out in our world who feel the same as I've felt since that tragic day back on September 11, 2001.Therefore I started the book as a scrapbook for my daughters to be able to share with their kids. I was inspired by dad whom has done one on WWII but back than there wasn't the acid free paper as there is today. He had lost all pages due to that fact. I felt so bad that all his hard & dedicated work was gone forever. My Father whom lost his life 8 months before this event has inspirer me to do this for him, and others like him. I've been so dedicated to my work that's pertaining to all those tragic events surrounding Sept.11, 2001 will never be forgotten.
US marks the 21st anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks Introduction It's how we relate to a minimum of each other as we reflect on the day of 1 of the foremost horrific attacks on the American people in U.S. history Sept. 11, 2001. For the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), we join the rest of the country this Sunday in remembering and honoring the lives of various who were tragically taken from us during the terroristic events that happened in NY City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania twenty-one years ago. Every generation seems to possess their day in history that impacted them. Tragic events bit as the attack on Pearl Harbor and thus the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Luther King Jr. were mournful memories etched in everyone's minds at the time. If we were alive then, we remember for the foremost part where we were, what we were doing, and therefore the way we heard the news. However, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were unlike anything ever seen before because, for the first time in history, death and destruction on an enormous scale were televised and updated in real-timeIt was at 8:46 a.m. Eastern standard time on Tuesday morning when the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, hit the North Tower of the Earth Trade Center in NY City. The second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, struck the South Tower of the Earth Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. News anchors announced that planes were being hijacked and employed by terrorists as guided missiles the state was under attack. Thirty-four minutes later, at 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77, crashes into the Pentagon collapsing a neighborhood of the building. Then at 9:59 a.m., the burning WTC South Tower collapses. At 10:28 a.m., the WTC's North Tower collapsed. in just 102 minutes, 19 hijackers would achieve taking the lives of two, 977 Americans and terrorize the entire country with the entire world watching in horror. Yet, within the midst of this unimaginable tragedy, stories of unbelievable heroism were being reported from every location. Firefighters and enforcement officers ran into the burning World Trade Center buildings, rescuing many of us. Service members led others through the burning, smoldering Pentagon rubble to safety. Passengers of flight 93 decided to fight back against hijackers to prevent them from getting to their intended target. The selfless sacrifice would come to define that day the utmost amount, if less so than the attacks themselves. Our world looks much different today. The wars that came after Sept. 11, 2001, are over. While the fight against terrorism remains, what's left of the persistent conflict within the center East looks like it too will soon draw to a thorough. There are men and ladies entering service that weren't even alive twenty-one years ago. apart from those folks who were in uniform or were deciding to hitchhike the military, nothing strengthened our resolve to "support and defend" our Constitution, our nation, and our way of life quite like 9/11. A-bit the rest of our fellow Americans who were present then, that day changed us forever. This Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, the VFW encourages every American to pause and honor the victims, reflect on the extraordinary courage of first responders and ordinary citizens alike, pay tribute to people who took the fight against the enemy and sacrificed to protect and defend our freedom, and never let Sept. 11, 2001, fade from our memory. Never Forget.
Over the past few years, John Pavlovitz's blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has become a virtual hub for millions of people from all over the world, drawn there by his clear, compelling words on compassion, equity, love, and justice. This expansive, like-hearted community transcends race, orientation, gender, religious tradition, political affiliation, and nation of origin--and finds its affinity in the deeper place of our shared humanity, which is the True North of his writing. This collection lovingly pulls together some of John's most widely-read and most beloved essays on faith, politics, grief, and the elemental parts of being human. It is an encouraging, inspiring, challenging storehouse of "stuff that needs to be said."
Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition like war. Raymond Haberski argues that since 1945 the common moral assumptions expressed in an American civil religion have become increasingly defined by the nation's experience with war. God and War traces how three great postwar “trials”—the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror—have revealed the promise and perils of an American civil religion. Throughout the Cold War, Americans combined faith in God and faith in the nation to struggle against not only communism but their own internal demons. The Vietnam War tested whether America remained a nation "under God," inspiring, somewhat ironically, an awakening among a group of religious, intellectual and political leaders to save the nation's soul. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 behind us and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, Americans might now explore whether civil religion can exist apart from the power of war to affirm the value of the nation to its people and the world.
The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Visceral...I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” —NPR “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son working in the North Tower, caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.
