President Bush Reflects on Flight 93

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Never Forget

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Questions Without Answers

Many across the nation and the world end the day with questions, many without answers. Who is responsible? Why would they attack heavily populated Manhattan? Why planes and buildings? Where are my loved ones, and are they safe? What does this mean for our military?

Things as mundane as person to person communication were in complete disarray, even simple cell phone communication was impacted for days after the attacks. It would take days, weeks and in some cases months before these questions were understood and answered. Now, 11 years on, we are beginning to put the events of that day in context. Osama Bin Laden is dead as the result of the efforts of a highly skilled Navy Seal team. With some seperation and with his well deserved demise, we are finally beginning to put the events of that fateful day 11 years ago, into context.

Our world is still changing as a result of that day, but one thing remains certain, 'We Will Never Forget!'

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Project 2996: Remembering Andrew Stern

This is my blog post from 2009's Project 2996.

Andrew Stern, 41, of Bellmore, N.Y., a bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, worked on the 104th floor of 1 World Trade Center. A huge New York Yankees fan, Stern helped coach his son's Little League team and took his son to Yankees games. Stern usually rose at 4 a.m. to go to the gym before work. An avid runner and solid athlete, he ran in the New York City Marathon

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September 11, 2001 started off just as any other late summer day in the Hudson Valley. Andrew rose that morning at 4:00 AM for is usual morning run. It was unusually clear and the sun shown brightly on the two towers at the center of World Trade Plaza. Andrew worked on the 104th floor of WTC 1, and was busy at work when his life and the lives of thousands of others were violently shaken at 8:45 that morning. He was one of 700 employees Cantor Fitzgerald is estimated to have lost that day.

Unfortunately, the further from 9/11/01 we get, the harder it is to find information on those who were lost that day, but I was able to find a tribute written to Andrew on September 11, 2006. Do yourself a favor and read it.

God Bless and keep Andrew Stern's family. May they be comforted.

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Lives Lost September 11, 2001

List of September 11th Victims.

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The President Addresses The Nation

President Bush addresses the nation, saying "thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil" and asks for prayers for the families and friends of Tuesday's victims. "These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve," he says. The president says the U.S. government will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed the acts and those who harbor them. He adds that government offices in Washington are reopening for essential personnel Tuesday night and for all workers Wednesday.

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Reports of Missing Heroes

The New York Police Department says that at least 78 officers are missing. The city also says that as many as half of the first 400 firefighters on the scene were killed.

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President Bush Arrives Back In Washington, D.C.

President Bush arrives back at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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World Trade Center 7 Collapses

The 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center complex collapses. The evacuated building is damaged when the twin towers across the street collapse earlier in the day. Other nearby buildings in the area remain ablaze.

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President Departs For Washington, D.C.

President George W. Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska headed back to Washington, D.C.

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Evil Has A Name

U.S. officials say there are "good indications" that Saudi militant Osama bin Laden, suspected of coordinating the bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998 and a bomb attack against the USS Cole in 2000, is involved in the attacks, based on "new and specific" information developed since the attacks.

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National Security Council Meeting

Karen Hughes, a White House counselor, says the president is at an undisclosed location, later revealed to be Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and is conducting a National Security Council meeting by phone. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice are in a secure facility at the White House. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is at the Pentagon.

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Services Partially Restored

At a news conference, Mayor Giuliani says that subway and bus services are partially restored in New York City. Asked about the number of people killed, Giuliani says, "I don't think we want to speculate about that -- more than any of us can bear."

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Flights Grounded Through September 12th

The FAA announces there will be no U.S. commercial air traffic until noon EDT Wednesday at the earliest. It's nearly a week before air travel returns to normal within the United States.

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Coordinated Terrorist Attack?

Senior FBI sources tell CNN they are working on the assumption that the four airplanes that crashed were hijacked as part of a coordinated terrorist attack.

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US Navy Stations Warships Off The East Coast

The Pentagon says five warships and two aircraft carriers will leave the U.S. Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia, to protect the East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port. The two carriers, the USS George Washington and the USS John F. Kennedy, are headed for the New York coast. Other ships headed to sea include frigates and guided missile destroyers capable of shooting down aircraft.

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State of Emergency Delcared

A state of emergency is declared by the city of Washington.

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President Bush Speaks

President Bush, speaking from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, says that all appropriate security measures are being taken, including putting the U.S. military on high alert worldwide. He asks for prayers for those killed or wounded in the attacks and says, "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts."

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Just 50 Planes Left to Land

All but 50 planes over the United States have been successfully diverted and recovered. The last 50 in the air report no problems.

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San Francisco International Airport Shutdown

San Francisco International Airport, destination for United Flight 93 which crashed in rural Pennsylvania, is shutdown and evacuated.

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Los Angeles International Airport Shutdown

Los Angeles International Airport, destination for three of the four hijacked planes, is shutdown and evacuated.

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President Bush Lands in Louisiana

President George W. Bush lands at Barksdale Air Force Base.

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Reports of Missing Planes

11:18 a.m.: American Airlines reports it has lost two aircraft. American Flight 11, a Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles, had 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard. Flight 77, a Boeing 757 en route from Washington's Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles, had 58 passengers and six crew members aboard. Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

11:26 a.m.: United Airlines reports that United Flight 93, en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, has crashed in Pennsylvania. The airline also says that it is "deeply concerned" about United Flight 175.

11:59 a.m.: United Airlines confirms that Flight 175, from Boston to Los Angeles, has crashed with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard. It hit the World Trade Center's south tower.

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New York Ginds To A Halt, Futher Evacuations

10:57 a.m.: New York Gov. George Pataki says all state government offices are closed.

11:02 a.m.: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urges New Yorkers to stay at home and orders an evacuation of the area south of Canal Street.

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The North Tower Collapses

The World Trade Center's north tower collapses from the top down, falling in upon itself and generating a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke. Hundreds of innocent lives, and lives of the heroes who tried to save them are lost. The New York skyline is forever changed.

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Inbound International Flights Diverted

All inbound flight traffic destined for the United States is ordered diverted to Canada.

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Additional Government Agencies Evacuated

In Washington, the State Department and Justice Department are evacuated, along with the World Bank.

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United Nations Evacuated

The United Nations building evacuates, including 4,700 people from the headquarters building and 7,000 total from UNICEF and U.N. development programs.

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Further Damage at the Pentagon

Due to the force of the impact and raging fires, one of the outer walls on the western face of the Pentagon collapses.

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The South Tower Collapses

With fires burning unchecked for more than an hour, the South Tower of the World Trade Center succumbs to gravity and stress, falling to the street below. Hundreds still trapped within the building, and countless heroes who ran into the building to help with evacuation are killed in an instant.

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Revolt Aboard Flight 93

Passengers begin an all-out assault on the cockpit of United Flight 93 attempting to reclaim control of the aircraft from the three hijackers now barricaded within. This action is believed to have caused the hijackers to give up plans for attacking a fourth target, speculated to have been the White House itself.

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President Bush Departs Florida

In a flight that would ultimately take him to Louisiana and Nebraska before returning to Washington, President Bush and his staff take off from Sarasota Florida aboard Air Force One.

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The White House Is Evacuated

The order is given and the White House is evacuated.

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American Flight 77 Strikes The Pentagon

American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the west side of the Pentagon, killing all 64 aboard and 125 in the building.

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Second Group of Fighters Scrambled

Two F-16 fighters are scrambled from Langley Air Force Base, Virginia headed to secure the nation's capitol, Washington, DC.

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President Bush Speaks

President George W. Bush makes a statement from Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida calling the crashes an "apparent terrorist attack."

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Calls From Flight 93

After Flight 93 was hijacked, and the pilot and crew were moved out of the cockpit and into the passenger area of the plane, Tom Burnett called his wife to report the situation. After she informed him of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, he replied that the hijackers were "talking about crashing this plane ... Oh my God. It's a suicide mission." He ended his call by saying, "Don't worry, we're going to do something."

This phone call is followed by several others culminating in the phone call where Todd Beamer's famous, 'Let's Roll' comment was overheard by Lisa Jefferson at 9:55 AM.

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The Nation Grinds To A Halt

The orders are given shutting down all airports nationwide and banning takeoffs of all civilian aircraft by the FAA.

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NORAD Notified of 3rd Suspected Hijacking

The FAA contacts NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector, notifying them of the suspected hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77.

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The Island Goes Into Lockdown

9:08 A.M. - The FAA bans all takeoffs of flights going to or through New York airspace.

9:17 A.M. - The FAA shuts down all New York City-area airports.

9:21 A.M. - All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan are closed.

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United Flight 175 Strikes the South Tower

United Airlines Flight 175 strikes the south World Trade Center tower klling all 65 aboard and countless others within the building.

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Fighters Scrambled

Otis Air National Guard Base in Fallmouth, Massachusetts scrambles two F-15's in response to the notification of the first suspected hijacking.

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American Airlines 11 Strikes the North Tower

American Airlines Flight 11 strikes the north World Trade Center tower, killing all 92 aboard and countless others within the building itself.

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NORAD Notified of Possible Second Hijacking

The FAA notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector of a second suspected hijacking. This time of United Airlines Flight 175.

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United Flight 93 Departs

Headed for San Francisco, United Flight 93 departs Newark with 37 passengers and 7 crew.

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NORAD Notified of Possible Hijacking

The FAA notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector of a suspected hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 11.

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American Airlines Flight 77

With 64 aboard, American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles International Airport.

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United Airlines Flight 175

At 8:15 AM EST, United Airlines Flight 175 departs from Boston's Logan International Airport bound for Los Angeles International Airport with 65 souls aboard

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American Airlines Flight 11

Loaded with 92 people aboard, American Airlines Flight 11 departs Boston's Logan International Airport heading for Los Angeles Inernational Airport.

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