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Images from 9/11 and the aftermath A look back at the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Sept. 11, 2001
A jet airliner flies into the World Trade Center towers in New York.
Carmen Taylor
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
With the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground, a plane explodes after hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center as the other tower burns.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
Suzanne Plunkett
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
A person falls from the burning North Tower of New York's World Trade Center after it was hit by a hijacked jetliner.
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DAPD
Sept. 11, 2001
People react near the scene of the attack on the twin towers on Sept. 11.
Ernesto Mora
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
The wreck of the World Trade Center smolders in the background as a man passes a subway stop.
Peter Morgan
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
President George W. Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, whispers in the president's ear after learning that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. Bush was visiting an elementary school classroom in Sarasota, Fla.
Doug Mills
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
People covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center.
Gulnara Samoilova
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building.
Marty Lederhandler
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AP
People evacuate the World Trade Center area on Sept. 11, 2001.
Shannon Stapleton
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
People flee the scene near the World Trade Center.
Diane Bondareff
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AP
Sept. 28, 2011
Officials survey the damage from the Sept. 11 attacks.
Robert F. Bukaty
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
Rescue workers remove a victim from the World Trade Center.
Shannon Stapleton
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
U.S. Customs Volunteer Firefighter Michael Saber drinks water from a fire hydrant in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers.
Yoni Brook
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Sept. 11, 2001
A woman covered in dust takes refuge in an office building after the top of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed. The woman was caught outside on the street as the cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the area.
Stan Honda
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AFP
Sept. 15, 2001
This Sept. 15, 2001, picture shows the Statue of Liberty from a vantage point in Jersey City, N.J., as the lower Manhattan skyline is shrouded in smoke after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Dan Loh
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AP
Sept. 12, 2001
A firefighter stands amid the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Yoni Brook
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Steven Kerstein looks at the devastation to his neighborhood from his bedroom window at Gateway Plaza on Oct. 11, 2011.
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Sept. 11, 2001
People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the collapse of the World Trade Center
Mark Lennihan
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AP
Sept. 12, 2001
This satellite image of Manhattan was collected at 11:43 a.m. EDT on Sept. 12, 2001, by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite. The image shows an area of white dust and smoke at the location where the 1,350-foot towers of the World Trade Center once stood.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
Brooklyn firefighters George Johnson, left, Dan McWilliams, center, and Billy Eisengrein raise a flag at the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. The photo has appeared on T-shirts, buttons and Christmas ornaments. It hangs at firehouses across the nation. A mural of it was painted on the walls of a Louisiana prison. And copies were left as a calling card in Afghanistan by U.S. commandos.
Thomas E. Franklin
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AP
Sept. 14, 2001
President George W. Bush stands with firefighter Bob Beckwith on a burnt fire truck in front of the World Trade Center during a tour of the devastation.
Doug Mills
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AP
Sept. 15, 2001
Two boys adjust a poster placed on a wall at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where families came to speak with officials about identifying their love ones, dead or alive.
Yoni Brook
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Sept. 16, 2001
A sign sits on the Brooklyn Heights promenade.
Michael Williamson
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The Washington Post
Sept. 15, 2001
Members of the New York Fire Department pay last respects to Chaplain Mychal Judge, who died of injuries suffered while on the scene of the World Trade Center disaster. Judge, a Franciscan priest, died while giving last rites to a firefighter.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
May 30, 2002.
The ceremonial procession moves up the ramp from the base of the World Trade Center site as recovery work ends on May 30, 2002. New York marked the end of the mammoth recovery of human remains and the ruins of the World Trade Center with a brief ceremony.
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Reuters
May 30, 2002.
A flatbed trailer carrying a flag-draped steel beam, which was once part of the World Trade Center towers, leaves the work site and formally marks the end of the recovery effort at Ground Zero on May 30, 2002. The beam was taken to a Kennedy Airport hangar for storage.
Bebeto Matthews
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AP
Sept. 11, 2002
Family members and friends of World Trade Center victims mourn at a ceremony commemorating the attacks at Ground Zero in New York on Sept. 11, 2002.
Suzanne Plunkett
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AP
Sept. 11, 2006
A woman cries at the edge of one of two reflecting pools marking the locations of the World Trade Center towers during a Sept. 11th commemoration ceremony in 2006.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2010
Memories of loved ones lost are left at a memorial site for New York firefighters during the 9/11 anniversary in 2010.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2010
Jenny and Paul Lucas look toward the World Trade Center site during the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in 2010.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2010
The Tribute in Light was repeated again during the 9/11 anniversary in New York in 2010.
Carol Guzy
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The Washington Post
Aug. 4, 2011
A view of the World Trade Center site shows the south pool waterfall with the Freedom Tower in the background as work continues on the national memorial and museum.
Don Emmert
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 11, 2001
A helicopter crew surveys damage to the Pentagon as firefighters battle flames after terrorists crashed an American Airlines jet into the Defense Department headquarters.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2001
Rescue workers attend to the injured while firefighters work to control flames after the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Michael Lutzky
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Vice President Dick Cheney, right, speaks to President George W. Bush by phone inside the operations center at the White House on Sept. 11 as staff members, including presidential counselor Karen Hughes, left, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, center, look on.
David Bohrer
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
Arlington County firefighters, preparing to battle the fire, watch flames erupt from the upper floors of the Pentagon.
Michael Lutzky
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Fire rages through the damaged section of the Pentagon after the terrorist attack.
Wwill Morris
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
A man carries what appears to be a piece of the jet from the wreckage at the Pentagon.
Michael Lutzky
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Servicemen watch the conflagration after being evacuated from the Pentagon.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Air Force Lt. Col. Janet Deltuva comforts a woman injured in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Juana Arias
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
The west side of the Pentagon is watered down with fire hoses as the building continues to burn.
Richard A. Lipski
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Firefighters and military personal drape a huge American flag over the west wall of the Pentagon, near the area damaged by the terrorist attack earlier in the day.
John McDonnell
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
President George W. Bush prepares to address the nation from the White House after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Frank Johnston
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The Washington Post
Sept. 12, 2001
The day after the attack on the Pentagon, firefighters continue to battle flames during the early-morning hours.
Tracy A. Woodward
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
U,S, senators and representatives sing "God Bless America" on the steps of the U.S. Capitol after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Kevin Clark
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The Washington Post
Sept. 15, 2001
Crowds gather to look at the damage in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Robert A. Reeder
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The Washington Post
Sept. 14, 2001
A view of the destruction caused by the hijacked jetliner that crashed into the Pentagon.
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Reuters
Sept. 15, 2001
Sean Dynan and Katie Evans, U.S. Naval Academy graduates, had planned their wedding for Sept. 15, 2001, went ahead with it despite the recent attacks. Eight-year-old Lisa Dynan, Sean's cousin and flower girl, gets "magged" before boarding the shuttle bus that would transport her and the wedding guests to the ceremony inside the campus.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Oct. 11, 2001
Crowds gathered at the Pentagon for the Department of Defense Service of Remembrance.
Rich Lipski
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The Washington Post
Feb. 6, 2002
An aerial view shows reconstruction of the Pentagon to repair damage to the building in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. Work continues nearly around-the-clock as construction crews pour cement for floors and walls to replace those damaged in the September attack.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2002
President and Mrs. Bush observe a moment of silence with other members of their staff before leaving White House for The Pentagon.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
June 11, 2002
A capsule was placed behind final piece of limestone completing the Pentagon's western facade. Deputy Sec.of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at left watches as Walker Lee Evey, program manager of Pentagon Renovation Program puts capsule in wall.
James A. Parcell
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2008
Servicemen pull off the velvet covers at the unveiling of the Pentagon Memorial during 911 anniversary ceremony at the Pentagon.
Richard A. Lipski
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2008
Dedication of the Pentagon Memorial on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Joe Shontere comforts his wife Julie, far left, along with daughter Tina Wasielewski during ceremonies. The Shontere's lost their daughter Angie Houtz who worked at the Pentagon in Naval Intelligence.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2008
Dedication of the Pentagon Memorial on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Pictured, family members and survivors acquaint themselves with their new memorial after the official unveilings.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Sept. 2, 2008
The Pentagon 9/11 memorial officially opened on the Sept. 11, 2008. Pictured, a family member pays a nighttime visit to the memorial for a private moment several days before the official unveiling.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2006
An array of beamed lights illuminate the night sky on Sept.11, 2006, commemorating the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Michel du Cille
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The Washington Post
Sept. 11, 2001
Emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa. Radar showed the San Francisco-bound Boeing 757 from Newark, N.J., had nearly reached Cleveland when it made a sharp left turn and headed back toward Pennsylvania, crashing in a grassy field edged by woods about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. FBI spokesman Jeff Killeen confirmed there were no survivors.
Keith Srakocic
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AP
Sept. 11, 2001
An ambulance drives behind two firemen as they walk along the road near the crash scene of a United Airlines jet that crashed near Shanksville, Pa.
Keith Srakocic
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AP
Sept. 19, 2001
This aerial photo provided by the FBI shows the crash site of United Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa.
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AP
Sept. 14, 2001
Unidentified family members of the victims of United Flight 93 attend a prayer service in Somerset, Pa., Flight 93 crashed in a field in nearby Shanksville, Pa.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
Sept. 17, 2001
Pennsylvania state troopers salute as buses carrying family members arrive at the crash site of United Flight 93, in Shanksville, Pa. The plane, which government officials suspect the hijackers intended for a high-profile target in Washington, was the fourth to crash in a coordinated terrorist attack that killed thousands, and the only one that didn't take lives on the ground.
Gary Tramontina
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AP
Sept. 11, 2002
Michael Stumpf and his wife Jennifer, of Richmond, pause to look at the makeshift memorial in Shanksville Pa., on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. A memorial service was held in memory of the 40 victims who died on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed after being hijacked by terrorists. About 3,000 member of the public and 500 family members, friends and dignitaries attended the event in Shanksville.
Tom Mihalek
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 11, 2002
On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a memorial service was held at the crash site of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Flight 93 passengers who attemped to gain control of the aircraft prevented the hijackers from reaching their target.
John McDonnell
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STAFF
Sept. 11, 2002
Alice Hogland, the mother of Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham, receives a hug after the 9/11 first-year anniversary ceremony at Shanksville, Pa.
John McDonnell
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STAFF
Sept. 11, 2006,
United Airlines personnel and visitors sing "God Bless America" at the United Flight 93 temporary memorial site, Sept. 11, 2006, in Shanksville, Pa., during a ceremony honoring those killed five years earlier aboard the hijacked flight which crashed during the terrorist attacks.
Jon M. Fletcher
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AP
Sept. 10, 2006
Lesia Hatlestad, left, Erik Hatlestad, center, 13, and Dan Hatlestad, right, of Colorado, grieve at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. The Hatlestad's were there remembering their neighbor, pilot Jason Dahl, who was the captain of Flight 93. Sept. 11, 2006, marks the fifth anniversary of the crash of Flight 93, which was hijacked by terrorists and plunged into a field in the rural western Pennsylvania town.
Jeff Swensen
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Getty Images
Sept. 10, 2006
Sandy Dahl of Denver touches the image the image of her husband Pilot Jason Dahl etched at the Shanksville Chapel for Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Dahl was piloting United Flight 93 when it was hijacked by terrorist and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
Mark Wilson
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Getty Images
Sept. 11, 2006
Doug Custer of Shanksville, Pa., rings a bell as each name of victims of Flight 93 at a memorial site on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, where United Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville.
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Getty Images
Sept. 11, 2006
President George W. Bush shares a moment with Makyla Blackford, granddaughter of United Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, at the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville, Pa., on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Laurence Kesterson
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AP
Sept. 3, 2009
A group of motorcycle riders are escorted by police while they stop in front of the United airlines entrance at Newark Liberty International Airport, as they prepare to ride cross-country to San Francisco following the intended flight path of United Flight 93. The plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa, September 11, 2001, after passengers and crew diverted the hijacked airplane from its intended target Washington, D.C.
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AP
Sept. 3, 2009
Motorcycle riders, including Ken Nacke, center with sunglasses on shirt, Patrick White, left center, and Dale Nacke, right center, hold up a commemorative flag as they gather at Newark Liberty International Airport preparing to ride cross-country to San Francisco, following the intended flight path of United Flight 93. Nacke's brother and White's cousin, Louis "Joey" Nacke II died in the crash in Shanksville, Pa,
Mel Evans
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AP
Sept. 11, 2009
Ken Nacke, foreground, rides with his daughter Courtney, 18, into a parking lot at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Sept. 11, 2009. About a dozen Harley-Davidson motorcycles ridden by relatives and friends of United Flight 93 passengers and crew members roared into San Francisco International Airport ending an eight-day journey that mirrored the plane's intended path. Nacke's brother Louis Nacke was a passenger on United Flight 93.
Jeff Chiu
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AP
Sept. 11, 2009
Dale Nacke, foreground, hugs Linda White in a parking lot at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Sept. 11, 2009. About a dozen Harley-Davidson motorcycles ridden by relatives and friends of United Flight 93 passengers and crew members roared into San Francisco International Airport ending an eight-day journey that mirrored the plane's intended path. Louis Nacke, who was Nacke's brother and White's cousin, was a passenger on United Flight 93.
Jeff Chiu
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AP
Nov. 7, 2009
Gov. Ed Rendell leans on his shovel during the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial, Nov. 7, 2009, in Shanksville, Pa. Plans are for the memorial to be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
July 21, 2010
Operators use earth moving machines as work progresses on the permanent memorial at the Sept. 11, 2001, crash site of United Airlines flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. The first phase of the three phase construction of the memorial for those that perished in the airliner crash of the terrorist attacks is scheduled to be completed for the 10th anniversary.
Keith Srakocic
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AP
May 2, 2011
Jeff Ray of Shanksville, Pa., visits the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 in Shanksville, after an extraordinary week of events in the United States, including the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. military forces.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
May 2, 2011
At the temporary Flight 93 Memorial site near Shanksville, Pa,, Jeff Ray of Stoney Creek, Pa. fights emotions on May 2, 2011, as he looks out over the field where Flight 93 crashed on 9/11. A permanent memorial site is now under construction and scores of visitors were moved to visit after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
Michael S. Williamson
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The Washington Post
May 2, 2011
At the temporary Flight 93 Memorial site near Shanksville on May 2, 2011, a newspaper and flag was mounted on the fence that surrounds that field where Flight 93 crashed on 9/11.
Michael S. Williamson
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2011
Work continues at the memorial plaza of the Flight 93 September 11 memorial, in Shanksville, Pa. The white wall is built on the angle of the planes' descent, with the point of impact represented by the rock at the end of the mown path.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2011
A view of some of the sweet gum trees, right, one for each victim, at the Flight 93 September 11 memorial, on Aug. 19, 2011 in Shanksville.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2011
Black concrete makes up the memorial plaza, designed to evoke an airplane wing at the Flight 93 September 11 memorial.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2011
The black concrete walls of the memorial plaza that overlooks the crash site at the Flight 93 September 11 memorial.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2011
A sheltering structure at the Flight 93 September 11 memorial, on Aug. 19, 2011, in Shanksville, Pa. The concrete walls of the structure are embossed with the texture of gum trees, 40 of which are planted, one for each victim.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
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