Still Burning: A Quarter Century On, Six Locals Share Their Stories of Sept. 11
Nearly 25 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, six residents from the Washington, D.C. area share their personal accounts of the tragedy. The retrospective examines the events of that day, when al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial airplanes to strike symbols of American power. These narratives provide a local perspective on the lasting impact of the attacks as the nation approaches the quarter-century anniversary.
A halcyon Tuesday morning in the D.C. area descended into horror on September 11, 2001.  Nineteen hijackers, members of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, stormed the cockpits of four commercial jetliners, killed the pilots, and seized the controls. It was a suicide mission with the intention of ramming the four planes into buildings that symbolized American […]
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