
NATIONWIDE — Twenty years ago today, there was a collective hush throughout the world as we helplessly watched the terrorist attacks committed at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the plane that went down in a field in Shanksville, Penn.
Take a look back at some of the images from that devastating day.
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Skyline of Manhattan with smoke billowing from the Twin Towers following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Man covered with ashes assisting a woman walking and holding a particle mask to her face, following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Two fire fighters looking into car while another New York City fire fighter pulls water hose from fire truck amid smoke and debris following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Rescue workers amid debris following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Rescue worker checking inside the back of a van amid debris following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Medical personnel and volunteers work the first medical triage area set up outside the Pentagon after a hijacked commercial airliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Mark D. Faram)
Smoke and flames rose over the Pentagon late into the night, following a suspected terrorist crash of a commercial airliner into the southwest corner of the Pentagon. (U.S. Navy Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Bob Houlihan)
Three nuns viewing a wall covered with missing notices after the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City (Library of Congress)
Informal tributes posted at the first, temporary memorial site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to those who perished on United Flight 93, which crashed during an attempt by passengers to recapture the plane, which had been hijacked by terrorists on 9/11/01 (Library of Congress)
Part of an informal memorial to the victims of United Flight 93, which crashed in a nearby field after passengers fought with hijackers who had taken the plane and directed it to Washington during the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. In 2011, a permanent memorial was opened nearby. (Library of Congress)
Memorial to Matthew Diaz, a victim of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York, N.Y. (Library of Congress)
A woman visits the Pentagon Memorial before a 9/11 commemoration ceremony Sept. 11, 2013, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (DOD photo by Sgt. Aaron Hostutler, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
Memorial photograph wall of people killed at the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan (borough) in New York City, built on the site of the terrorist attack that brought down the World Trade Center's "Twin Towers" on what has become known simply as "9/11" - September 11, 2001 (Library of Congress)
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