Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, our nation witnessed the unimaginable. Nearly 3,000 lives were taken when four hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
For many Americans, the day started out as any ordinary day would. Thousands of mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors, first responders, and coworkers left their homes, not knowing they would never return. But it wasn’t just their lives that were affected – our nation as we knew it changed forever.
As coverage of smoke and rubble took over the airwaves and television screens, the most destructive and deadly terrorist attack to occur on American soil unfolded. Countless first responders, military personnel, law enforcement officers, health care professionals, and good Samaritans answered the call to help, some making the ultimate sacrifice.
