Photos by Kristin Molinaro, The Bayonet · Public domain · Source
Cornish-born Vietnam War veteran and head of security at Morgan Stanley, who led some 2,700 employees out of the south tower and died after going back in for the last of them
On 11 September 2001 the south tower of the World Trade Center, weakened by fire, collapsed at 9:59 a.m. and the north tower at 10:28. In New York 2,753 people were killed, among them 343 firefighters.
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the four airliners hijacked on the morning of 11 September 2001 and the fall of the twin towers, the closing of the American sky, twenty years of war in Afghanistan and the death of bin Laden, and the memorial pools in the towers’ footprints