On September 11th, 2001 my wife and I had just woken up to start getting ready for work right around 6am. The first plane had already crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center when my mother-in-law called to tell my wife to turn on the television...
Country fans will never forget the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the weeks and months following the hijacking of four American passenger jets, artists like Alan Jackson, Darryl Worley and Toby Keith penned songs that still endure on radio today. What is your favorite September 11-inspired country song?
Earl C. Johnson knows firsthand what first responders are made of. As a 9/11 survivor, he saw heroic sacrifices by emergency workers during the September 2001 terror attacks in New York City that inspired him to run for fire commissioner of Washington's Bainbridge Island Fire Department...
It's our Independence Day! The Fourth of July usually means fireworks, grilling and having fun in the hot, hot sun. Unfortunately, when you put all those things together, accidents can happen and you need to get help. But how do you know if your situation is serious enough to call busy 911 dispatchers, who may already be dealing with other life-or-death situations? Here are some helpful guidelines
Ten years after 9/11 a woman got a note from her husband who was inside the World Trade Center.
Randy Scott was trapped in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He wrote a note and threw it out the window.
The note was found by someone on the ground before the buildings collapsed and it was passed around for 10 years until DNA was used to match a spot of blood on the note...
If you’re going to fall and hurt yourself, you might think a hospital lobby is a pretty lucky place to do it. After all, the building does house doctors and nurses who can tend to you right away.
That’s what 82-year-old Doreen Wallace thought. But she was wrong.
Working with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the oral history project StoryCorps is on a mission to record at least one story honoring each of the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center that occurred on February 26, 1993 and on September 11, 2001.