We
pray today that from the ashes will rise a new spirit of beauty and unity
in America.
Already,
all across this nation our hearts
have been knit together into a new tapestry of one America.
Because of this tragedy,
we have been bound together by a
silver chord of hope and brotherhood and sisterhood.
What was meant to drive us apart has
really drawn us together.
May we always remember.
Reverend Wintley Phipps
The
September 11, 2001 attacks consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist
suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting
civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
On
the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists affiliated with
al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of
hijackers included a trained
pilot. The
hijackers crashed two of the airliners United Airlines Flight 175
and American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center in New
York City, one plane into each tower 1 WTC and 2 WTC. A third airliner
American Airlines Flight 77was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington
County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth
aircraft United Airlines Flight 93 attempted to retake control of their
plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of
Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. In addition to the 19
hijackers, 2,973 people died; another 24 are missing and presumed dead.
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