The 9/11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance, honoring the 2,977 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.
grades 3 to 12The 9/11 Memorial & Museum offers interactive lesson plans for students in grades 3 to 12 that address the 9/11 attacks, their ongoing repercussions, and the history of the World Trade Center.
NEW YORK — Families will once again read the names of their beloved, departed relatives at the Sept. 11 memorial tribute Saturday. Due to the pandemic, they were not read aloud by families in person in 2020 but the practice is set to return in 2021, according to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.Sep 10, 2021
Alan Jackson Shares Story Behind 9/11 Anthem, 'Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)' Two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., Alan Jackson debuted a song that had come to him in the middle of the night weeks earlier.Dec 29, 2021
On any given workday, up to 50,000 employees worked in the WTC twin towers, and an additional 40,000 passed through the complex. After the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, the rescue and recovery clean-up of the 1.8 million tons of wreckage from the WTC site took 9 months.
2,996September 11 attacks / Number of deaths
Relatives of the victims of the 9/11 attacks have begun reading out the names of all 2,983 people who were killed. The ceremony is expected to last four hours. Each read out several names, ending with the name of the person they lost.
about three hoursIt takes about three hours to read all of the names. In recent years, by the end of the ceremony the crowd has thinned to about 100 people.Sep 11, 2016
It would take more than three hours to complete. After each group of names, readers offered personal words of remembrance. “To my nephew and friend, Firefighter Peter J. Carroll, we all love you and miss you, especially your smile,” Charles Guigno said.Sep 11, 2018
List of songs about the September 11 attacksArtist/composerTitleDescriptionLeonard Cohen"On That Day"Coldplay"Politik"Written the day of the attacks. Chris Martin told NME that it reflects his realization of mortality after 9/11.The Cranberries"New New York"Sheryl Crow"God Bless this Mess"Linked 9-11 with the Gulf War.108 more rows
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen performed a poignant rendition of his “I'll See You in My Dreams” at the 9/11 memorial in New York City on the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks.Sep 11, 2021
The week after the terrorist attacks, music sales dropped 5%, while the New York metropolitan area suffered a 16.2% decline, according to Nielsen SoundScan (worth noting: six weeks earlier, N Sync's Celebrity album sold a staggering 1.8 million units its first week out).Sep 11, 2011