Started by students, Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA has staged the Waves of Flags display for Patriot Day since 2008. Each flag represents one of the lives lost in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The sight of nearly 3,000 flags perched on their lawn is at turns inspiring
Today marks 20 years since hijacked airliners crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and, thanks to heroes on board, into the woods near Shanksville, PA instead of the US Capitol. The headlines in the next day’s Wall Street Journal screamed the news. Remembering September
On this 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, we remember through photography. Those who lost their lives that day will not be forgotten. Below are a few of our favorite photographs from our Flickr group, in remembrance of this day in our history. [flickr_gallery user_id=”67681714@N03″ id=”72157715932336387″]
The great tragedy of mass death and destruction by terrorists piloting hijacked jets in New York City has left all of us who watched, in person or on our televisions with indelible memories of that day. We remember exactly where we were when the unthinkable first aircraft struck the North
Sixteen years ago, today, the unthinkable happened. Terrorists turned passenger filled airliners into flying bombs they used to attack the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and destroy the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A fourth hijacked jet was crashed by its passengers into a field
It’s my birthday. September twelfth. Thirteen years and one day ago the Twin Towers were destroyed along with a lot of our sense of safety in the world. Like most of us, I was deeply troubled and still am by the attacks reported the day before on television and recapped
I grew up in a quaint 2-family house located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. For my entire life up until leaving for university, I could remember seeing the Twin Towers looming off in the distance right from my porch. Ironically, I always thought that these two gigantic Tetris
This is not a post about politics, or the underlying reasons behind terrorism. This is a post about the power of photography and the obligations of the photographer. I still remember being only two miles away from the plane hitting the Pentagon. I had a roomful of art students in
