Mounted Daguerreotype; made by Jerry Spagnoli, 2011. President Barack Obama speaking to a crowd at the September 11, 2001, Ten Year Anniversary at Ground Zero.
from Marco Grob's portrait series "Time Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience", commissioned by "TIME" magazine in 2011 for the 10th anniversary of 9/11; framed photograph; image of Felipe Pereira, Joshua Frappier, Nate Robinson, and Karrah Jarret; portrait of four U.S. Army soldiers, three men and one woman, in Army fatigues; quote from Felipe Pereira "The first thought you have is that you look down at your legs and say, are they still there?"; quote from Joshua Frappier "We walked into hell, basically. We lost a couple great guys, and I'm sad to say it, but they went out doing their job. And I'm proud, and I know they're proud."; quote from Nicholas Robinson "A mortar landed about 25 meters from me, right outside my guard post. And then a truck bomb - about a thousand-pound car bomb - drove through the gate and exploded."; quote from Karah Jarrett "It was very scary. I was a private, brand-new into the army. Never been away from home."
Flight attendants are highly trained personnel. The In-flight manual serves as their bible, giving official instructions on how to handle any situation. Each flight attendant is required by the airline to carry a manual when onboard a flight.
On the morning of September 11, lame duck Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was watching the progress of the New York City primary election. Having lost popularity in a public split from his wife, and fighting prostate cancer, Giuliani was ready to step out of the limelight. Instead, the events of the day served to rocket him to the pinnacle of visibility. Arriving at the World Trade Center just after the second plane hit, Giuliani remained at the center of the crisis for the next sixteen hours. He held press briefings, visited hospitals, comforted families, and returned repeatedly to the attack scene. In the following weeks, wearing a succession of trademark caps, he inspired the city and the nation with messages of compassion, resolve, and resilience.
This computer monitor, serial number 10C41000565, was part of a collection of equipment and personal possessions recovered from the wreckage of the Pentagon after the September 11 attack.
This airplane fuselage skin fragment is made of aluminum and is a silver color overall with yellow paint on the reverse side. This was a piece of one of the hijacked airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Because most of the fuselage melted in the fires that brought down the towers, the only parts of the aircraft that could be recovered were pieces that were sheared off on impact. The yellow-green paint on the fragment indicates that the FBI didn't need that piece as evidence anymore and was therefore released to the Smithsonian.
Color photograph by professional photographer Joel Meyerowitz from Ground Zero- World Trade Center site, on October 26, 2001 depicting the still smoldering rubble of the buildings.