15th Anniversary Collection

My name is Barry Freitag, and on 9/11/2001, I was a Detective with the Arlington County Police and a first responder to the Pentagon. From 9/11-9/21, I participated in evidence recovery. Because of my service, I retired on disability with liver and…

This picture was acquired at the time of the 2017, 9-11 Moment Of Silence

Chief Mike Holley of the Nation Emergency Response Team
Day 3 in the stairwell.

!7 years ago I like others watched from my home here in Indiana. As a Veteran and a RN I felt it was something I would have to respond to. right after the first tower fell I a long with my cousin pack our truck and started a 12 hour trip that ended…

my name is Matt, I'm now 35 & at the time of 9/11/01, I was in college (Penn St.) & recall the bonds of friendship formed that day that remains to this day w/those who were from mainly NYC & D.C. I just remember sitting with those classmates who…

I became a lot more aware of world events and I paid more attention to politics. I also realized that we in the U.S. were not immune to terroristic events.

Five siblings on family vacation days before 9-11 events, in front of the WTC towers on Liberty Island.

more grateful

I was a Police Officer during that time.

"Remember Me" a pentagon shaped quilt made in the months following 9/11. Each strip holds the name/location of victims lost that day.

God has such an interesting way of bringing things about.

So today I’m relaxing, loving life and being thankful. But I got this weird impulse. Many of you might be familiar with it. It’s kind of a macabre, morbid curiosity that comes about and…

I was a kid who was at school at the time and I remember I was dismissed early. I remember people were freaking out around me and as a kid, I didn’t understand what was going on, but since I’m older now, I understand how much pain and trauma the loss…

lost family and friends.

After that fateful day, the way I observed the world around me changed. Where before I would see Arabic people as simply people who I may have a hard time understanding, I afterwards saw them as associated with my nation's enemy. It took years before…

I will never feel as safe as I used to feel

lost my brother in 2010