| DATES |
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- The date of the attack: 9/11 - 9 + 1
+ 1 = 11.
September 11 has 9 letters and 2 numbers: 9+2=11.
The number 911 is the telephone number for emergencies in
North America.
September 11th is the 254th day of the
year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
After September 11th there are 111
days left to the end of the year.
March 11, 2002, marked 6
months since the attack, and fell in the 11th week of
2002.
On March 11, 2002, New York City lit the sky with 88
(8 x 11 = 88) powerful GE bulbs that sent light beams
into the
sky from the World Trade Center site. The next morning, on March
12, 2002, 11 FDNY firemen
were recovered from Ground
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| Flight AA11 And The Target |
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- The first plane to hit the towers
was American Airlines Flight 11.
The Flight 11 call
letters were AA11: A=1, A=1, AA=11.
Four of the hijackers
on flight AA11 have the initials A. A. for their names: AA=11.
The fifth AA11 hijacker was the pilot, Mohamed Atta, 11
letters, and AA in last name.
Flight AA11 had 92 people on
board - 9 + 2 = 11.
Flight AA11 had 11 crew members - 2
pilots and 9 flight attendants.
The target of Flight AA11
was in New York City -11 letters.
The State of New York
was the 11th State added to the Union.
Trade Center is 11
letters, and Skyscrapers is 11 letters.
World Trade Center
Towers is 22 letters - 2 x 11 =22.
The WTC Twin Towers -
standing side by side, look like the number 11.
The WTC
Towers are each 110-stories high.
The North Tower of the
WTC was the first to collapse. It fell at 10:28 A.M. -1+2+8=11.
The 1st Fire Unit to arrive to the WTC towers was FDNY
Unit 1. Unit 1 lost 11 firemen.
The WTC towers collapsed
to a height of 11 stories.
After 99 days of burning, NYC
declares the WTC fires are extinguished - 9 x 11 = 99.
The
World Trade Center fires burn continuously for 99 days, between
September 11, 2001 and
December 19, 2001. The World Trade
Center fire is the longest burning commercial fire in U.S.
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