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A plane explodes after hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center as
the other tower burns in New York September 11, 2001 with the Brooklyn bridge in
the foreground. Both towers of the complex collapsed after hijacked planes hit them.
(REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek |
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This series of photographs shows hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 as it
approaches (upper L) and impacts the World Trade Center's south tower (L), bursting
into flames and raining a hail of debris on lower Manhattan September 11, 2001. A
gaping hole in the north tower (R) can be seen following a similar attack earlier
in the day. (Sean Adair/Reuters) |
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Firefighters head up into the building while office workers evacuate. (anonymous) |
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Firefighters head up into the building while office workers evacuate. (anonymous) |
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A firefighter rests on the bumper of his firetruck as he pauses while working
at the site of the World Trade Center collapse Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. Thousands
remain missing in the rubble after the terrorist attacks on Tuesday.
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) |
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New York police on patrol in the World Trade Center Complex, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, pass the ruins of
the World Trade Center's Building 7, center, in New York. It collapsed Tuesday as a result of structural
problems from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. (AP Photo/The New
York Times, Jim Estrin, Pool) |
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A police officer stands guard at a barricade outside the Empire State Building in New York
on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, a day after the suspected terrorist attack on the World Trade
Center. Streets, a block east and west of the high profile building, were closed to pedestrian
and vehicle traffic. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) |
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Firefighters raise a flag late in the afternoon Tuesday in the wreckage
of the World Trade Center towers
(Thomas Franklin/The Record/AP) |
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Firefighters leave the scene of the World Trade Center disaster as rescue
operations continue, in New York September 13, 2001. A total of 4,763 people are
reported missing so far in the World Trade Center catastrophe, officials said.
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) |
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A New York City firefighter looks up September 13, 2001 at what remains of
the World Trade Center after its collapse following a terrorist attack.
Picture released September 17. REUTERS/HO/U.S. Navy Photo by
Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson |
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Firefighters and emergency personnel remove debris from the site of the World
Trade Center towers' collapse in New York, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001.
(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin) |
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Rescue workers dig through the rubble at the base of the World Trade Center
Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, as they search for survivors and victims. They found nothing
at this spot. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin) |
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Firemen, lower left, climb over the rubble of the World Trade Center as rescue
operations continue in New York September 12, 2001. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
said that 4,763 people are counted as missing from the attack.
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) |
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A firefighter rests her chin on a helmet during a break as she watches the cleanup
of the World Tade Center attacks, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001 in New York.
(AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett) |
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New York City Fire Lt. Richard Johnson from Engine 88 takes a breather after
working at the World Trade Center disaster, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. The 110-story
twin towers were leveled Tuesday morning when terrorists flew two hijacked airliners
into them. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm) |
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Exhausted firefighters hitch a ride in the back of a pickup truck after their
shift at the World Trade Center disaster Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. Terrorists flew
two hijacked airliners into the 110-story twin towers, leveling the New York landmark,
killing thousands, including several hundred New York City firefighters.
(AP Photo/Ron Frehm) |
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Crews of firefighters, rescue workers and volunteers work in a portion of the
collapsed remains of World Trade Center in New York September 14, 2001. The World
Trade Center towers were destroyed after being struck by two planes in a terrorist
attack on September 11. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) |
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Crews of firefighters, rescue workers and volunteers gather near a portion of the
collapsed remains of World Trade Center in New York September 14, 2001. The World Trade
Center towers were destroyed after being struck by two planes in a terrorist attack on
September 11. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) |
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Crews of firefighters walk on debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center
as they inspect the roof of One World Financial Center which stands directly accross
West Street from where the World Trade Center collapsed, in New York September 14, 2001.
The World Trade Center towers were destroyed after being struck by two planes in a
terrorist attack on Spetember 11. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) |
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Couple stops to look at firefighter's jacket left on the gates of the U.S. embassy
in Ottawa, for the victims of the attacks on the United States, September 14, 2001. The
World Trade Center was destroyed when two hijacked airliners were crashed into the twin
towers on September 11. (REUTERS/Jim Young) |
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Rescue workers stand on the top of the remains of the World Trade Center as they
continue to look for survivors in New York September 14, 2001. The World Trade Center
towers collapsed September 11 after being attacked with hijacked commercial airliners.
(REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) |
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Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts, of the
World Trade Center's twin towers after a terrorist attack in New York Tuesday, Sept.
11, 2001. As workers cleared some of the rubble, new crews of firefighters and rescue
workers charged into the devastation with shovels, pickaxes and flashlights to look for
bodies or survivors. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) |
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Firefighters make their way into the destruction to begin the search for survivors.
(James Nachtwey/TIME) |
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Firefighters pay out hoses to combat the fires burning all around them.
(James Nachtwey/TIME) |
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Firefighters reach for oxygen tanks which will enable them to work in the smoke-laden
site.
(James Nachtwey/TIME) |
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Firefighters work in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers in New York,
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. The towers collapsed Tuesday after being struck by two
commercial aircrafts in a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Virgil Case) |
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Firefighters survey the area of one of the atriums near the World Trade Center
following the terrorist attack on the building in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
(AP Photo/Alex Fuchs) |
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Firefighters make their way through the blown out facade of a World Financial
Center building as they head in the direction of the destroyed towers of New York's
World Trade Center, following a terrorist attack that leveled the twin towers in lower
Manhattan, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Alex Fuchs) |
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Firefighters and other rescue personnel rest atop the ruins of a car beside the
destroyed mullions, the vertical struts which once faced the soaring outer walls of
the World Trade Center towers, after a terrorist attack on the twin towers of lower
Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. As workers cleared some of the rubble, new crews
of firefighters and rescue workers charged into the devastation with shovels, pickaxes
and flashlights to look for bodies or survivors.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) |
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Firefighters comb the remains of the World Trade Center after a terrorist attack
September 11, 2001.
Two hijacked commercial planes slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center
Tuesday, causing both 110-story landmarks to collapse in thunderous clouds of fire and
smoke and killing a "tremendous number" of people. (REUTERS/Peter Morgan) |
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Firefighters make their way through the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York
after two hijacked planes flew into the landmark skyscrapers. (AFP/Doug Kanter) |
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Rescue workers remove a man from the World Trade Center tower in New York City
early September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes crashing into the building.
Victims of the attack — many suffering from extensive burns — began arriving at hospitals
in New York City about an hour after two planes slammed into the twin towers.
(REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) |
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Firemen carry an injured man from the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed.
(Reuters/Peter Morgan) |
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Firefighters make their way through rubble of the World Trade Center.
(AP/Shawn Baldwin) |
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Firefighters hose down the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in the early morning hours
Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, at the site of Tuesday's terrorist attack in New York. With each passing hour, the men
and women who comb the wreckage grow more frustrated, as their hope of finding survivors is dashed at every
turn. (AP Photo/J. Jason Warner) |
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Firefighters hose down the wreckage of World Trade Center Building 7, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001,
at the site of Tuesday's terrorist attack in New York. With each passing hour, the men and women who
comb the wreckage grow more frustrated, as their hope of finding survivors is dashed at every turn.
(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) |
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Firefighters continue to douse small fires in the rubble of the World
Trade Center in New York, Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, six days after the
worst terrorist attack in American history leveled the buildings. (AP Photo/Ed Betz) |
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A group of firefighters is applauded by traders as they pass through the floor of the
New York Stock Exchange Monday, Sept. 17, 2001. The stock market opened for
the first day since the Tuesday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
(AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser) |
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Work crews lift a fire truck from the debris of the collapsed World Trade
Center in Lower Manhattan on Saturday evening, Sept. 15, 2001. Hundreds
of firefighters who tried to save thousands trapped in the center's two towers
following a terrorist attack are missing in the rubble. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) |
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A New York City police officer clears people off Wall St. in New York Sunday, Sept.
16, 2001, as preparations continue for opening the stock markets Monday morning.
The markets have been closed since last Tuesday's terrorist attack against the World
Trade Center. (AP Photo/Bob Bukaty) |
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Workers hang a banner honoring World Trade Center rescue workers from
the roof of a building next to the World Trade Center attack site
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) |
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The twisted wreckage of the World Trade Center looms in
the background as National Guard soldiers patrol the
perimeter in lower Manhattan early Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001.
Rescue workers continue a non-stop search for more than 5,000
persons missing after last Tuesday's terrorist attack .
(AP Photo/Ron Frehm) |
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A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way
into the rubble of the World Trade Center, Saturday Sept 15, 2001.
(AP Photos/U.S. Navy, Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres)
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Police and rescue workers wait near the wreckage of the World Trade Center
in New York, late Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001. With hopes fading on Sunday that
any more survivors would be found amid the dust, steam and gore that is
now the World Trade Center, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged New Yorkers
not to cower before terrorism. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
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