Nine years ago today, our nation suffered it’s worst terrorist attack ever as four hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Former Army Times photographer Warren Zinn raced to New York and and while on the roof of the Verizon Building, which is next to the World Trade Center, he photographed Verizon employee Mike Carrigan, who found a phone card that had fallen onto the roof. The phone card ironically showed a picture of the twin towers before they had collapsed into the rubble seen here.
Navy Times reporter Mark Faram was at the Navy Annex next to the Pentagon when he heard American Airlines Flight 77 roar by and explode as it crashed into the building. He ran down the hill and arrived outside the west entrance of the Pentagon where he found a Priest praying over a wounded man that had managed to get out of the burning building. All around, service members, DOD employees, and emergency workers mobilized to help the injured.
