The numbers give an account of the story.

The numbers give an account of the story. 68 miles of knife 12,000 miles of electric cable. 828 pass exit doors. 600,000 square feet of glass. 300 security cameras. Nine chapels of six different faiths. couple airplanes.

As American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, forward Sept. 11, 2001, Americans were faced with an unreal reality. A nation ??” forever confident ??” pop unexpectedly, was no longer invincible.

It didn't stop there. strokeed the nation held its breath as American flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, and United flight 93 aimed at the nation's capital, crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

Weeks later, the story is still unfolding, and still, more numbers: 279 confirmed dead (at pres time), more than 6000 missing, $40 billion in extremity aid. On Sept. 11, as the face of a nation changed, in the same manner did the face ...