| On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a set of coordinated attacks were carried out in the United States. According to the official 9/11 Commission Report, nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda, a network of militant Islamist terrorist organizations, hijacked four American airliners. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City — one into each of the two tallest towers, about 17 minutes apart — shortly after which both towers collapsed. The third aircraft crashed into the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a rural field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Shanksville following passenger resistance. The death toll included 33 crew members, 214 passengers, 19 hijackers in the aircraft, 125 in the Pentagon, and over 2,000 dead and missing in New York. 2800+ Killed or Injured |
| "Grand Theft" Some things die at sunset; a day, a romance, a life. Something that woke in the morning with a vibrant promise of hopeful expectation has ended. What was it I felt the need to achieve, and couldn't? Where did the hours, the days, the years go that I needed to accomplish. The feats I once felt so important. Time rushes past me, laughing as he goes, mocking, sneering for the irretrievable seconds snatched from me when I was caught unaware He knows I cannot get them back or make amends for those millions I must have misused He knows there is only "next time" to try and make better use of the minutes that I had. He will be there then as well; standing guard, watching, waiting, grabbing at every millisecond that goes astray and reminding, reminding, reminding... Time belongs to no man. AUTHOR UNKNOWN |