The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real time. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror inflicted by Islamic terrorists and the heroism displayed by ordinary Americans forced onto the frontlines of a sudden new war.
\n\nTo mark the anniversary of 9/11 and to ensure that future generations never forget, Breitbart News offers this visual chronicle of the day that changed the world forever and the decades of war that followed.
\n\nFrom the time of its opening in 1973 to that fatal day in September 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center dominated the skyline of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District, as seen in the following photograph taken just six days before the Towers fell.
\n\n(Jamie Squire/Allsport/Getty Images)
\n\nDesigned by Detroit architect Minoru Yamasaki, the Twin Towers were famously disparaged by the New York Times’ architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who offered this eerie and unintentionally prescient prediction in 1966: “The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.”
\n\nThose words were long forgotten on that bright September morning before death rained down from cloudless skies.
\n\nA view from the Hudson River of Lower…
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