World Trade CenterThe World Trade Center towers in Lower
Manhattan were eviscerated from the New York City skyline
following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Ground ZeroA U.S. flag
flies near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center in New
York, September 11, 2001. Planes crashed into each of the two
towers, causing them to collapse AftermathSmoke from the remains
of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a
lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New
York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey September 12, 2001.
Each of the twin towers were hit by hijacked airliners and
collapsed in one of numerous acts of terrorism directed at the
United States on September 11, 2001 George W. Bush Visits Ground
ZeroStanding atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter
Bob Beckwith Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, then-President George W.
Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu
speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New
York City. FirefighersNew York Cit