Honoring the 9/11 Heroes
OTTAWA—Sept. 11, 2001, is a day that the United States will always remember. Twenty-four years ago, four simultaneous coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda occurred on American soil. Two commercial airplanes filled with passengers deliberately crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while another plane slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane’s intended target was foiled by the passengers who fought back; the plane crashed into an empty field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,977 people lost their lives.
