• Twenty-five (25) years ago 19 Muslim members of Al-Qaeda, motivated in part by their religious beliefs, attacked the United States of America’s institutions of Government (and failed, thanks to the sacrifice of the aircraft’s passengers), Military Might (the Pentagon), and Financial Strength (the World Trade Center), along with America’s center of the Jewish Population (New York City).
• 2,997 people died directly from the attack by radical Islamic terrorists on
– the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center,
– the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and
– Washington, D.C., causing the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA.
• The death toll included more than 60 innocent Muslims (i.e.: not including the 19 Muslim Al-Qaeda attackers), mostly service workers who perished during the World Trade Center attack, along with some First Responders. Note one Arab source confirmed 32 Muslim deaths.
• 20,874 survivors were deemed eligible for compensation by the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund set up by Congress in 2011, as of August 31, 2018.
• Countless number of family, relatives, and friends of those killed and injured were affected and continue to suffer.
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LET US NEVER FORGET!
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| Source: “Lamentation 911″ / text by E.L. Doctorow, photographs by David Finn. Millwood Pub., 2002, exhibited at “Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions” at the Library of Congress, 2002. |
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| Source: Photocopy of handwritten letter from middle school student Courtney McClean From “Exit Art Gallery Reactions”, part of collection “A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks”, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
All media sourced from Library of Congress, 911, September 11, 2001 attacks, using PICRYL – Public Domain Media Search Engine, 2001
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