10th Anniversary Collection

Photo of award used nationally by American Red Cross Chapters to recognize 9-11 volunteers and Red Cross donors. Designed by Lyn Franklin Hoyt of Berkeley Tandem, Inc. in Nashville, TN.

When Lyn got the call from ARC NHQ to design this special award…

It was a beautiful september morning in wisconsin. I was working and had just stepped into the second building where the tv was located when I noticed everyone watching the television. Normaly I wouldnt think much of it but they looked like they were…

On 9/11, I was living at a Tokyo university as an American exchange student. It was night there when the planes hit, and when dormmates screamed for me to come look at the TV because the World Trade Center was burning, I came and spent the next few…

I was 13 years old when the events of Semptember 11th, 2001 unfolded. I was a middle schooler at the time. While walking out of my 1st period French class, I heard bits and pieces of different conversations from other students. The only things I…

9/11 really breaks my heart all year around, but this year it's just really overwhelming. 10 years and I remember where I was and what I was doing to the detail. So many tears our country has wept. I believe all Americans grew closer and have only…

I lived in Chicago. I had an appointment on 9/11/01 at 5pm to see a doctor about going on antidepressants. I'd never been on any prescription drugs for mental health issues before, and I didn't want to start. However after the 4 planes crashed and…

In July of 2009 I visited relatives in Shanksville, PA and found myself driving by the crash site of UA Flight 93 every day of my visit. With each passing, I grew more and more grateful for the heroes who were onboard the flight. This photo was taken…

After 9/11, I left the financial services industry and returned to my first love, teaching. Since then, I've worked as an educator and instructional technology specialist in the New York City Dept of Education. I think it's important that we give…

The Iraq War and invasion of Afghanistan caused a big influx of money to "terminate" terrorists, and destroyed our economy and our debt caused the indirect effects of the paycuts/freezes for my family.

To my Children,
On Spet. 11th, at 7:30 A.M. I brought Dalton who had just turned one on the 6th downstairs. We had a morning routine. I changed his diaper, and set him up into his highchair for breakfast. I remember it being beautifully sunny that…

profound effect. i made a film.

http://abledanger.de/

profound effect. i made a film.

http://abledanger.de/

It made me value life more than I did before. I lost someone very dear to my heart. It rocked me to my core that these people could come into our country and just take from us so violently for no reason other than ignorance. I cannot fly even though…

My life has not changed that dramatically compared to the people who had family members die on that tragic day, but i definitely get freaked out when the anniversary rolls around and i am scared of terrorists. I also pay more attention to what's…

Honestly, my life wasn't changed much because I was so young at the time. I never really experienced the world in a pre 9/11 world

It didn't....

I really don't think that my life has changed, but I do believe that it has changed others lives. After the 9/11 happened it had a lot of people's eyes filled with fear and it made a lot of people paranoid. It made people feel like they have to had…

After witnessing and experiencing the attacks in New York City on the morning of September 11th, I was forced to re-define what I believed to be humanity's capacity to hate, but also to love. I had to re-define my concept of good and evil. I had to…

Our news office in New Berlin WI was just north of one of Milwaukee's Mitchell Field's major flight paths for incoming aircraft.Even though we were 20 miles from the airport, we could stand in our parking lot to hear and see every model and type of…

On 9 11 i was 14 years old, i knew nothing about america or americans and i try not to cry, but it was imposible, it was too much even for a child from a long distanced country. I felt rage, compassion, disbelief, shock. Later, i tought i could erase…