Here Are September 11 Images We'll Never Forget
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#NeverForget. That's the theme of this emotional 9/11 image gallery when the world changed on September 11, 2001. At 8:46 a.m, Flight 11 crashed into floors 93 through 99 of the World Trade Center's North Tower, and at 9:03 a.m., Flight 175 crashed into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower.
At 9:37 a.m., Flight 77 crashed into the western side of The Pentagon, killing 64 people on board. And at 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 on board.
Through 9/11 images and pictures, we learn more about that fateful day and pause to remember those lost.
September 11 Images We'll Never Forget
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Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes at 9:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001, in New York City.
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Smoke pours from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners.
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People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
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A firefighter breaks down after the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
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Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after being hit by two planes.
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Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of President George W. Bush to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.
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Smoke comes out from the Southwest E-ring of the Pentagon building after a plane crashed into the building and set off a huge explosion.
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A military helicopter flies in front of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia at the impact site where a hijacked airliner crashed into the building.
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Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center after two hijacked airplanes hit the Twin Towers.
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An unidentified New York City firefighter walks away from Ground Zero after the collapse of the Twin Towers.
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People walk away from the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
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People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.
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Smoke comes out from the Southwest E-ring of the Pentagon building after a plane crashed into the building and set off a huge explosion.
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People evacuate the World Trade Center.
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A fireman runs as the World Trade Center collapses.
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People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge as the World Trade Center burns.
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People evacuate the area around the World Trade Center.
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People run away as the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
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A somber scene of people.
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A survivor sits outside the World Trade Center after two planes hit the building on September 11, 2001, in New York City.
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Emergency vehicles are seen on-site.
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Officials examine the crater at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Military service members salute as fire and rescue workers unfurl a huge American flag on September 13, 2001, over the side of the Pentagon in Arlington, VA.
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Early morning light hits the smoke and wreckage of the World Trade Center on September 13, 2001, in New York City, two days after the twin towers were destroyed when hit by two hijacked passenger jets.
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A military helicopter flies in front of the Pentagon on September 14, 2001 in Arlington, Virginia at the impact site where a hijacked airliner crashed into the building.
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Civilians flee as a tower of the World Trade Center collapses on September 11, 2001 after two airplanes slammed into the Twin Towers in a terrorist attack.
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Firefighters walk toward one of the towers at the World Trade Center before it collapsed after a plane hit the building on September 11, 2001 in New York City.
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President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld survey the damage at the Pentagon building on September 12, 2001.
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Over 25,000 items of memorabilia sit along the fence at the Flight 93 Memorial site.
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The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018.
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