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The very first publication anywhere of how a light tribute to 9/11 might look first appeared as a suggestion by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle just one month after 9/11 on Oct. 12, 2001. FDNY Engine Company 205 and Ladder Company 118, located next door to the Eagle at that time, just a block from Brooklyn Bridge access, were perhaps the most decimated of all FDNY companies on 9/ll.

Memorializing its firefighter neighbors, Brooklyn Eagle published early illuminated tribute

September 11 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

The Tribute In Light that shines over Lower Manhattan each year may...

Smoke billows across the New York City skyline after two hijacked planes crashed into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Most Americans were guided through the events of the day by one of three men: Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Peter Jennings of ABC and Dan Rather of CBS. Each had extensive reporting experience before that, Brokaw and Rather were at the White House during Watergate, and Jennings has been a foreign correspondent. AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File

‘Get out now’ – inside the White House on 9/11, according to the staffers who were there

September 11 | Anita McBride, The Conversation

With the president away, I arrived later than usual that morning and...

Flags are placed by the names of those killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in New York. One World Trade Center rises in the background. AP Photo/Donald King

US commemorates 9/11 attacks with victims in focus and politics in view

September 11 | Jennifer Peltz and Karen Matthews, Associated Press

The U.S. remembered the lives taken and those reshaped by 9...

Flight 93 families hope heroism award helps keep story alive

May 10 | Marc Levy, Associated Press

Serene, stark and seemingly in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania, the...

Fort Hamilton hosts annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony

September 14 | Jaime DeJesus Brooklynreporter.com

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hamilton on Sept. 10 hosted its annual...

Fort Hamilton turns out for 9/11 commemoration

September 12 | Editorial Staff

A solemn ceremony was held on the afternoon of 9/11...