Remembering 9/11: A look back at the September 11th attacks -- The Washington Post

Nine lives, 10 years later

The skeptic who was there

April Gallop was in the Pentagon with her son, Elisha, on Sept. 11, 2001. (Bonnie Jo Mount/Post)

Steve Hendrix

NINTH IN A SERIES | She was working at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, the day that things stopped making sense.

Living with ‘if only’

EIGHTH IN A SERIES | A daughter’s small, considerate choice has a profound, unknowable consequence.

The wounded man

SEVENTH IN A SERIES | Since Sept. 11, 2001, Don Brennan, a Pentagon police officer, has been unable to forget the wounded man he tried to help.

After loss, working to fill the void

SIXTH IN A SERIES | After Floyd Rasmussen lost his wife Rhonda at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, he looked for a way to fill the void and ended up finding his current wife, Brenda.

Still feeling at home up in the sky

FIFTH IN A SERIES | Flight attendant Dannye Drake-Ivey was supposed to fly on Sept. 11, 2001. Now, 10 years after the attacks, she still lives in the sky.

After 9/11, security guard on high alert

FOURTH IN A SERIES | Chris Stegherr is one of the security guards who was hired after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. More than a million guards — double the number in the nation’s workforce a decade ago — are patrolling public spaces.

Brought together by catastrophe

THIRD IN A SERIES | He survived the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon. He never imagined that day of tragedy could be responsible for bringing to him the love of his life.

Twin misses his other half

SECOND IN A SERIES | Inseparable from his twin for 35 years, one man learns how to fill the hole in his life left after the death of his brother in the attack on the Pentagon.

Trying to find the new normal

FIRST IN A SERIES | A wife missing her husband. Children missing their father. They are the survivors of Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert. And Sept. 11 has defined everything since.

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Nine lives, ten years later

Meet nine people who were directly affected by the 911 attacks and hear where they are ten years later.

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The Age of 9/11

Anita Tam. In 2001, she was a six-year-old second-grader at Sunnyside Elementary School; San Francisco, Calif.

How old were you when the planes struck the World Trade Center? And where were you? And where are you now -- 10 years older, 10 years after the attacks? The Post asked people of all ages to reflect on the 10-year anniversary.

What have we learned about religion post-9/11?

--------------topL-----------------top l: Sam Harris9-28-2006 Santa Monica, CA Writer Sam Harris, author of the book "The End of Faith:Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason." He writes about the link between religious faith and violence. His new book is called "Letter to a Christian Nation." Photographed at St Monica's Catholic Church , in Santa Monica , CA. photo by Jonathan Alcorn for The Washington Post Freelance Photo imported to Merlin on Fri Sep 29 01:03:02 2006--------------topC-----------------Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during a news conference outlining his party's election manifesto pledge on law and order, in London, Tuesday March 10, 2005. Also on Thursday Blair urged political opponents to drop their opposition to a new anti-terrorism law, insisting the legislation was vital to protect national security. (AP Photo/Kieran Doherty, Pool)--------------topR-----------------top right: Joel OlsteenLakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen smiles during an interview in the arena that was home to the Houston Rockets basketball team Sept. 20, 2004, in Houston. The fast-growing megachurch that Osteen pastors is spending $78 million to turn the arena into its new spiritual home, with 16,000 seats, two waterfalls and plenty of television cameras for Lakewood Church's nationally broadcast services. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)--------------botR-----------------bottom right tutuFormer Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu smiles as he arrives for a special debate on Darfur at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday June 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)--------------botL-----------------bottom left imam feisalImam Feisal Abdul Rauf, leaves the offices of the Bahraini newspaper Al-Wasat in Budaiya, Bahrain, on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, where he met with local journalists. Rauf, the imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, is on a U.S.-funded outreach tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to talk about religious tolerance in America. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)--------------botC-----------------bottom center The Dalai Lama greets the audience attending a Buddhist lecture, Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Dalai Lama's visit is a two-day lecture series called "Engaging Wisdom and Compassion" and hosted by the Tibetan studies organization Jewel Heart. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)

Elizabeth Tenety

What have we learned about religion in the past 10 years? What was the spiritual impact of 9/11?

Americans remember a tragedy in many ways

David Nakamura and Colum Lynch

Americans around the world mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The resurgence of American partisanship

Karen Tumulty

Why the common ground of 9/11 turned out to be a mirage.

The lost world of 9/10: The Sept. 11 attacks and the end of American innocence

Joel Achenbach

The day before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the last day of American innocence.

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Twin messages of loss, hope

Sally Jenkins

The World Trade Center cross, first seen among the wreckage of bent steel two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, holds a central yet controversial place at Ground Zero.

F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11

Steve Hendrix

A pilot reflects on one of the lesser-told tales of Sept. 11: how the first counterpunch the U.S. military prepared to throw at the attackers was effectively a suicide mission.