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Shattered
Photos by James Nachtwey
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The Pentagon
September 11, 2001
9:45 am EDT
September 11, 2001 -- 9:45 a.m. EDT
An American Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles
plowed into the Pentagon with 64 passengers and crew
aboard. The jet, which had just taken off from Dulles Airport,
set the world's largest office building ablaze.
September 11, 2001 -- 10:10 a.m. EDT
A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
The jet struck a section of the building
that housed Army offices.
Firefighters fought hard to extinguish the flames.
Recent renovations included improved fire
suppression materials, which helped decrease
the spread of the flames.
Washington's hospitals reported more
than 50 injured, and the number
increased as the day went on.
"Huge explosion, great ball of fire, smoke
started billowing out, and then it was just chaos."
-- Mike Walter, an eyewitness, told CNN.
Lisa Burgess, a reporter for Stars and Stripes
newspaper, said she was walking in a corridor near
the blast site and was thrown to the ground by the
force of the blast.
Pentagon officials said all U.S. military sites around the
world went to Threat Con Delta, which means that a
terrorist attack has occurred or an attack at a specific
location was likely.
Damage includes a huge hole cut through
the smoldering wreckage of the Pentagon.
Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, called the attacks "barbaric
terrorism carried out by fanatics."
Despite the massive damage, Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon
would open for business Wednesday.
September 15, 2001
Exhausted but driven, hundreds of volunteers continued going
through tons of rubble and using heavy equipment to remove
debris from the World Trade Center wreckage. Plummeting
temperatures before dawn on Saturday sent workers
rummaging through Salvation Army clothes for sweaters.
Workers continue their recovery effort at the
Pentagon as the morning sun lights up the
sky with the Capitol dome in the background.
A volunteer watches the jaws of a giant
crane reach for twisted steel beams that
once supported the World Trade Center.
An exterior wall of the World Trade Center
is lit by lights at the site of the World Trade
Center attack early Saturday.
Firefighters walk away early Saturday from the twisted
metal and rubble left after Tuesday's terrorist attack
that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.
Onlookers line up to sign a sympathy
banner on a hill overlooking the Pentagon.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
September 11, 2001
Emergency workers look at the crater created when United
Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on
Tuesday. Radar showed the Boeing 757, bound for San Francisco,
California, from Newark, New Jersey, 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. There were no survivors.
Two men survey the scene near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93
crashed while heading from Newark, New Jersey, to
San Francisco, California
More slides
With all Manhattan bridges closed, people left on foot
Woman covered in dust and soot.
Satellite view of Manhattan, the day after.
Smoke trail from Manhattan, as seen from the space station.
Satellite view of damage to the Pentagon.
A reminder of what it looked like on
June 30, 2001, from a satellite’s viewpoint.
The fountain between the WTC towers.
As it once was…