The Fight Against Forgetting 9/11

Photo caption: The second hijacked plane hits the South Tower at the World Trade Center on September 11. 2001 in New York City as taken by NARA employee John J. Celardo. who was based at the NARA building at 201 Varick St. Photo source: NARA. National Archives Identifier: 404601480. Use: Unrestricted. Article by Brian Burnes. Flatland KC – September 9, 2026.

Pleasant Valley Fire Department Chief Robert Stinson pulled his flatbed pickup up to a largely empty airport hangar in New York a decade ago. Since 2002, it had been the grim reliquary of curated pieces of the World Trade Center, leveled during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In 2010, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began distributing the relics to fire departments, municipalities, and schools. But by 2016, some 2,600 parts and portions had been distributed to organizations and, once inside the hangar, Stinson saw there was little left. […]

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