25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks: Timeline, facts about the day that changed America

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President George W. Bush watches as Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center from Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., Sept. 11, 2001.

People post photos of missing loved ones in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.

The remains of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks.

Traffic comes to a standstill on the Staten Island Expressway minutes after the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

GED teacher Cindi Bostwick, right, and student Tara Thompkins, 20, of Syracuse, watch television coverage of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 at the North Area Athletic Club.

In this Sept. 13, 2001 file photo, an American flag flies over the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings in New York. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser, File)

People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. (AP Photo/FILE/Suzanne Plunkett)

At Syracuse University's Goldstein Student Center, students watched the news on TV about the morning's terrorist attack in New York City and Washington D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Firefighter Gerard McGibbon, of Engine 283 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, prays after the World Trade Center buildings collapsed September 11, 2001 after two hijacked airplanes slammed into the twin towers in a terrorist attack that killed some 3,000 people. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers in New York City.

People watch from Liberty State Park in Jersey City as the Tribute in Light shines above Lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center during a test run on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, ahead of the 24th anniversary of 9/11.

A woman pays respects at the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. after a Service of Remembrance Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, as the nation marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The Wall of Names honor the 40 people killed in the crash of Flight 93.

Standing atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, President George W. Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York City.

An unidentified woman has just told a police officer that her husband was still in the World Trade Center.

People run from the collapse of World Trade Center towers in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Pictures from a first responder, John DeRosa, after the 9/11 attacks. On Church St with 5 World Trade Center on the right. Part of 2 WTC still standing 10 days after the attacks.

A marker at the temporary memorial, near Shanksville, PA, honors the passengers and crew of Flight 93, hijacked on September 11, 2001.

Near Shanksville, PA, a chain-link fence bearing flags, hats, rosaries, and other items served as a temporary memorial honoring the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

An overall aerial view, two days later, of the impact point on the Pentagon where the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-200 entered, breaking up in the process. The impact destroyed or damaged four of the five

Cards and letters sent from children to rescue workers from the records of the American National Red Cross.

New York City fire fighters continue to search for survivors at Ground Zero.

Sailors on board the USS Eisenhower watch televised news reports, showing the World Trade Center, during the terrorist attacks.

An Urban Search and Rescue crew member from Washington state searches through the rubble for survivors following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

A note rests among flags at a memorial near the crash site of United Flight 93, in Shanksville, Pa., Thursday Oct. 11, 2001. The hijacked airliner crashed Sept. 11, killing all 44 crew and passengers, shortly after two other hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and another into the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Gary Tramontina)

The 9/11 Memorial Museum sits adjacent to the North and South Tower Pools and One World Trade Center in New York City, New York on Friday, August 28, 2026.

The deadliest terrorist attack on American soil occurred 25 years ago today, shocking the nation and the world.

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