Anybody sufficiently old to recollect the primary iPods and the final “Buddies” episode rattling certain remembers the Tuesday that modified the world in 2001 — the place they have been, what they have been doing and who instructed them to activate the TV as a result of our nation had been attacked.
The terrorist assaults of Sept. 11, 2001 killed almost 3,000 individuals on the World Commerce Heart’s Twin Towers in New York Metropolis, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and a area in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, the place airplane passengers thwarted hijackers’ plans to crash into the White Home, as a substitute ambushing the cockpit and crashing the airplane, killing all 44 individuals on board — together with the terrorists.
1000’s extra — largely firefighters, law enforcement officials and EMTs — have since succumbed to most cancers and different sicknesses attributable to the poisonous mud and chemical compounds they inhaled whereas working to rescue survivors and recuperate our bodies from the devastation at Floor Zero.
Annually on Sept. 11, the Alex Vega Key West Firehouse Museum, 1024 Grinnell St., and the town of Key West honor the primary responders and all victims of 9/11 at a memorial ceremony.
The museum homes two memorial items of the World Commerce Heart that collapsed when two hijacked planes slammed into the skyscrapers that Tuesday morning.
Key West’s historic hearth bell, which as soon as rang within the cemetery to alert island residents of a hearth, is struck twice on 9/11 on the exact occasions the hijacked planes hit the Twin Towers — 8:46 a.m for the North Tower and 9:03 a.m. for the South Tower.
Native firefighters, regulation enforcement officers and metropolis leaders spoke on the remembrance, together with Sheriff’s Capt. David Smith and metropolis commissioners Donie Lee, Aaron Castillo and Lissette Carey.