Many of the long-term repercussions of 9/11 are still with us today — from the wars, government departments and the surveillance state that were started because of it, to the hastily discarded judicial norms and civil liberties
This essay is excerpted from David Knowles’s “Remembering to Remember the World Trade Center.” The full version is available on Kindle andAt approximately 8:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I was pushing a stroller carrying Eli, my 2-year-old son, toward the Borough Hall subway station in downtown Brooklyn.
By this time, video of United Airlines Flight 175 slamming into the south tower was being played in a loop on every television station. News crews had arrived at the World Trade Center minutes after the first plane made impact and were in position to capture the second, providing multiple angles and vantage points, each more astonishing than the last.
In 1971, the twin towers had become the world’s tallest, surpassing the Empire State Building, which had held that distinction since 1931. A few months before the Trade Center’s coronation, my family and I were living in Fairfield, Conn., a well-to-do bedroom community on Long Island Sound, a stop on the New Haven Railroad train line whose terminus — an hour and 35 minutes south and west — was Grand Central Terminal. We’d moved to the East Coast from the city of my birth, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Khan’s high-profile projects had brought him to the attention of the Saudi royal family, who, by the 1970s, had embarked on a building boom that would modernize the architecture of the oil-rich, desert nation. In 1975, a year after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had asserted its global status as an energy bully and finally lifted an embargo on oil exports to the U.S.
The Salesforce Tower, center, is seen in this aerial view of the San Francisco skyline with the Bank of America Center and the Transamerica Pyramid on the far left.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
After 9/11 families told Biden not to attend memorials, FBI could release some secret filesU.S. Justice Dept. signals that it could release some classified information from its investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, which families of the victims say could show connections between the Saudi government and the terrorist attackers.
Read more »
US to review 9/11 records with eye toward making more publicThe Justice Department said Monday that it would work toward providing families of 9/11 victims with more information about the run-up to the attacks as part of a federal lawsuit that aims to hold the Saudi government accountable. Nearly 1,800 families, victims and first responders objected in a letter last week to President Joe Biden's attendance at Sept. 11 memorial events as long as key documents remained classified. Monday's move failed to placate at least some victims’ relatives, who said the FBI and Justice Department have already had years to review the documents.
Read more »
The Wellness Forecast: 11 New Product Launches We Can’t Stop Talking About in JulyLots of exciting picks to round out your summer essentials.
Read more »
‘Paralyzed bride’ renews vows with husband, shares update 11 years after accidentRachelle Friedman Chapman, who was paralyzed in an accident at her bachelorette party in 2010, renewed her wedding vows to defy stereotypes.
Read more »
Chinese Court Sentences Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 Years in Prison for EspionageA Chinese court sentenced Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, in a case at the center of a standoff with both Canada and the U.S.
Read more »