7:59am ET: American Airlines 11 departs Boston Logan International Airport for Los Angeles. #September11
8:14am ET: United Airlines 175 departs Boston Logan International Airport for Los Angeles. A "squawk" from American Airlines 11 alerts air traffic control that it has been hijacked. #September11
8:20am ET: American Airlines 77 Departs Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles. #September11
8:42am ET: United Airlines 93 departs Newark International Airport for San Francisco. Air traffic control becomes aware that United Airlines 175 has been hijacked. #September11
8:46am ET: American Airlines 11 hits the 93rd floor of the North Tower. Moment of Silence. #September 11
8:50am ET: Air Traffic control becomes aware that American Airlines 77 has been hijacked. #September11
9:03am ET: United Airlines 175 crashes into the South Tower. Moment of Silence. #September11
9:25am ET: The FAA closes United Spaces airspace. Canada agrees to accept all inbound transatlantic U.S.-bound flights. Global aviation regulators follow suit. #September11
9:28am ET: Air Traffic Control becomes aware that United Airlines 93 has been hijacked. #September11
9:37am ET: American Airlines 77 crashes into the eastern front of the Pentagon. Moment of silence. #September11
9:54am: Todd Beamer recites Psalm 23 with passengers on United Airlines 93. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Let's roll. #September11
9:59am ET: The South Tower falls. #September11
10:03am ET: United Airlines 93 crashes in a rural field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It was believed to be headed to the U.S. Capitol building. It was brought down because passengers fought back knowing that they were sacrificing their own lives. Moment of Silence. #September11
10:15am ET: Pentagon E ring, eastern face partially collapses. #September11
10:18am ET: President George W. Bush authorizes military aircraft to shoot down any commercial aircraft that was believed to be hijacked, a decision that would have carried immense guilt if it occurred. It didn't. #September11
10:28am ET: The North Tower falls. #September11
2,977 lives lost that day. That number will continue to increase due to medical conditions that developed from the toxins, trauma, suicide. 246 passengers. 2606 in New York. 125 at the Pentagon. 77 countries represented. 441 NYC first responders.
And that tragedy pales compared to Covid. Get vaccinated, for the love of god.
Are we worthy of their sacrifice?
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