2. How it affected survivors
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Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,167
Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to
train or car: 1.4 million
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Americans across the country, including
children, had substantial symptoms of stress. Even clinicians who practice in
regions that are far from the recent attacks should be prepared to assist people
with trauma-related symptoms of stress.
Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as
a result of 9/11: 422,000

3. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest
buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of
America.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel
of American resolve. – George W. Bush

4. Today, our fellow citizens, our way of
life, our very freedom came under attack
in a series of deliberate and deadly
terrorist acts. – George W. Bush
Total number killed in attacks in New York: 2,753
Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343

5. Number of people who lost a spouse or
partner in the attacks: 1,609
Estimated number of children who lost
a parent: 3,051
Bodies found "intact": 291
Remains found: 21,744
Number of families who got no
remains: 1,717

6. Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614
Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658

7. Look at that metal, look at that metal, it’s going to buckle, it’s going to come
down,’ and then there was an unreal, a thunderous roar, and we saw the top
of it disappearing into the building. Everyone just stood there, in shock. And
then the entire crowd started to cry, to sob. — Warren St. John

8. Chronology
8:46 AM Plane crashes into the north tower of the World Trade
Center.
9:03 AM Plane crashes into the south tower of the World Trade
Center.
9:17 AM The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shuts down
all New York City area airports.
9:21 AM The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halts all
flights at U.S. airports. It is the first time in history that air traffic
has been halted nationwide.
9:38 AM Plane crashes into the Pentagon. Evacuation begins
immediately.

9. 9:45 AM The White House evacuates.
10:05 AM The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
10:10 AM A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
10:10 AM Plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
10:22 AM The State and Justice Departments, as well as the World Bank are evacuated.
10:28 AM The World Trade Center's north tower collapses.
10:45 AM All federal office buildings in Washington, D.C. are evacuated.
1:44 PM Five warships and two aircraft carriers are ordered to leave the U.S. Naval
Station in Norfolk, Virginia to protect the East Coast.
4:10 PM Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses.

10. The Flights
American Airlines Flight 11
From: Boston, Massachusetts (Logan Airport)
To:
Los Angeles, California
Lives: 92 people on board
Crashed into North Tower of World Trade Center at 8:46 AM
United Airlines Flight 175
From: Boston, Massachusetts (Logan Airport)
To: Los Angeles, California
Lives: 65 people on board
Crashed into South Tower of World Trade Center at 9:03 AM
American Airlines Flight 77
From: Washington, D.C. (Dulles Airport)
To: Los Angeles, CA
Lives: 64 people on board
Crashed into the Pentagon at 9:38 AM
United Airlines Flight 93
From: Newark, New Jersey
To:
San Francisco, California
Lives: 44 people on board
Crashed into rural Pennsylvania (southeast of Pittsburgh)

11. Victims
Victims came from more than 90 countries around the world.
The following are the number of people who died at each site:
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Flight 11
Flight 175
Flight 77
Flight 93
2,823 (includes airline passengers)
125 (not including plane victims)
92 people on board
64 people on board
64 people on board
44 people on board

12. Here are a few 9/11 reports you might have missed:
A Princeton University machine called a Random Event
Generator predicted a cataclysmic event would take place
just three hours before the 9/11 attack.
Rescue workers would eventually sift through more than 1
million metric tons of debris.
The ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed
Atta, triggered a security alert at the Logan Airport in
Boston. His bags were not checked in or loaded onto the
fatal flight.
Top Google searches for the week of 9/11 included
CNN, The World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden and the
number one predictor of world events, Nostradamus.

13. I guess a stiff drink helps us cope. Alcohol consumption in Manhattan went up
25% the week after the attack from the previous year.
Not to be outdone, both cannabis and tobacco consumption also rose by 10
percent.
I hope God was watching as church and synagogue increased by 20 percent.
The Black Boxes from Flight 77 (the plane that hit the Pentagon) was found the
day after the attacks and it was later discovered that the voice recordings were
unrecoverable. First time in 40 years something like that has happened.
Hummmm?

14. The death toll affected many as a total of 3,051 children
lost a parent in the attack and 17 babies were born to
widows whose husbands had been 9/11 victims.
Identifying the dead was an arduous task. Two hundred
ninety-one bodies were classified as “intact” and for one
family it was nearly a year before their child was found
and identified.
Over 65,000 personal items were found that helped
identify bodies and to give to family members as
remembrances. One display contained 437 watches and
144 wedding rings.

15. Many might be surprised to know that a Muslim prayer room and a Koran store were
destroyed in the attack.
The NSA listening in? Not really, since five of the 9/11 hijackers stayed at a motel
directly across from the infamous spying organization.
Flight 77 hit a section of the Pentegon that had just undergone a $258 million
remodel complete with reinforced walls and windows.
Over $100 million in artwork was lost in the devastation including works by Picasso
and David Hockney