A Nation Remembers September 11............................................
OLD NEW YORK, PRE SEPTEMBER11........................................
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- NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - THE BEGINNING - NEVER FORGET THE 2,948 LIVES LOST -
- TERROR TIMELINE -
8:45 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, Boston to Los Angeles with 92 people onboard, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, Boston to Los Angeles with 65 people onboard, flies into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
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9:31 a.m. Speaking from Florida, President George Bush pledges the United States will hunt down the guilty parties.
9:40 a.m. American Flight 77, en route from Dulles Airport, Washington DC, to Los Angeles with 64 people onboard, crashes into the Pentagon.
9:48 a.m. The U.S. Capitol and the West Wing of the White House are evacuated.
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9:49 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration bans all aircraft takeoffs in the United States.
9:50 a.m. South tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
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9:58 a.m. Emergency operator in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on United Flight 93, Newark to San Francisco with 45 people onboard, stating the plane was being hijacked.
10:00 a.m. United Flight 93 crashes about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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10:29 a.m. North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
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11:00 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani orders lower Manhattan evacuated.
11:40 a.m. With U.S. military on nuclear alert, Bush taken to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
1:20 p.m. Bush boards Air Force One for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
2:51 p.m. U.S. military deploys missile destroyers and other equipment in New York and Washington.
5:20 p.m. Another World Trade Center building collapses.
7:00 p.m. Bush arrives in Washington.
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8:31 p.m. Bush addresses the nation, vowing to punish "evil acts."
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WITH THE SORROW OF A NATION, THE CLEANUP, RECOVERY, AND REBIRTH BEGINS...
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- MEMORIAL -WE WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE WHO GAVE ALL, SO WE CAN LIVE IN FREEDOM -
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