On the very clear, otherwise ordinary morning of September 11, 2001, ten hijackers took control of two fully fueled airplanes, and slammed them into the 1,368-foot-tall towers of New York City’s two tallest buildings, the World Trade Center.
Within an hour, the burning jet fuel had softened the buildings’ massive steel spines, and they collapsed—one floor falling into the one below it—until the pressure had reduced those giant symbols of American prosperity into millions of tons of dust and scrap metal.
At the same time in Arlington, Virginia, another set of hijackers drove another plane headfirst into the Pentagon. Passengers on a fourth plane likely bound for the US Capitol—United Flight 93—courageously fought their hijackers, and the plane crashed into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, before it could reach its target.
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