20th Anniversary Of 9/11

WBUR's complete coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Flowers are placed at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on Sept. 11, 2020, as the U.S. commemorates the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

Declassified 9/11 FBI Report Offers Few Answers To Families' Lingering Questions

The report, released last Saturday, was partially redacted.

06:26Sep 16, 2021

How 9/11 Changed Flying As We Knew It

On Sept. 14, 2001, flying as we knew it changed forever: the way pilots and crews are trained, the way passengers are screened, and the cost and amenities of flights.

05:41Sep 14, 2021

An American flag memorial, created by younger volunteers at an event on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, bears the names of 9/11 victims with ties to Massachusetts. (Quincy Walters/WBUR)

'A Day Of Coming Together': Volunteers Gather For Acts Of Service Across Boston On 20th Anniversary Of 9/11

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, volunteers of all ages joined together across Boston to aid in acts of service and remember those who were lost two decades ago.

Local Coverage

03:59Sep 11, 2021

Waltham High School English teacher Katherine Waldron-Parr used President George W. Bush's Sep. 20, 2001 address to teach her class about rhetoric. (Max Larkin/WBUR)

20 Years Later, Sep. 11 Attacks Can Still Provoke Pain Among Teachers And Students

Current high school seniors were born after the 9/11 attacks. But as teachers at Waltham High School found this fall, the topic still has to be handled with care.

Local Coverage

04:23Sep 11, 2021

Pilot John Ogonowski of Dracut, killed on American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11th attacks. (Photo courtesy of Laura Ogonowski)

He Was Flight 11's Pilot. To His Daughter, He Was Dad And A Farmer First

Laura Ogonowski was 16 years old on 9/11. She was pulled out of her high school classroom and told her father had been killed. John Ogonowski was the captain of...

Local Coverage

03:58Sep 10, 2021

Acting Gov. Jane Swift gives a televised speech about security in Boston and Logan Airport from her office in the Mass. State House in October 2001. (Evan Richman/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Former Gov. Jane Swift Recalls What It Was Like To Lead On 9/11

Over the weeks and months following 9/11, former Gov. Jane Swift led a state that was reeling. She met with families of Massachusetts residents killed in the 9/11 attacks, and...

Local Coverage

08:37Sep 10, 2021

visitor traces the date etched in a marble slab on the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., in 2016. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field outside Shanksville, Pa., with 40 passengers and four hijackers aboard on Sept. 11, 2001. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Post-9/11 'Forever War' Shaped Policies That Led To Trump's Rise, Author Spencer Ackerman Says

Ackerman argues the war on terror still isn't over.

09:39Sep 10, 2021

Broadway cast of "Come From Away." (Courtesy)

Musical Shares The Story Of One Small Canadian Town's Kindness To 7,000 Strangers On 9/11

Beulah Cooper and Hannah O'Rourke share how their lives intersected on Sept. 11, 2001, when O'Rourke was among 7,000 airline passengers stranded in Gander, Newfoundland, where Cooper still lives.

09:48Sep 10, 2021

Visitors assist in unfolding a giant flag at a temporary memorial overlooking the crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The plane crashed Sept. 11, 2001, into a rural field from the presumed target of the nation's capital, killing 40 people. (Archie Carpenter/Getty Images)

A National Guard Commander Recalls Suicide Mission To Intercept Flight 93 On 9/11

After the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Marc Sasseville and his colleagues at the National Guard learned of a fourth hijacked plane...

10:25Sep 10, 2021

The ticketing and checking area at Dayton International Airport is completely abandoned Sept. 11, 2001 in Dayton, OH after all commercial air traffic was grounded by the aircraft hijackings and terrorist attacks. (Michael Williams/Getty Images)

How An Organ Donation Continued Despite The 9/11 Attacks

At a children's hospital in Nashville and Houston, an organ donation was put in doubt when the entire country's airspace was closed to traffic.

03:10Sep 10, 2021

Virginia Buckingham, former CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority, or Massport, near the Logan Airport 9/11 Memorial. (Steven Senne/AP)

Massport Leader During 9/11 Reflects On 20th Anniversary Of The Terrorist Attacks

As CEO of the organization in charge of Logan Airport during the terrorist attacks, Virginia Buckingham says it has taken her a long time to mentally recover from what happened...

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04:24Sep 10, 2021

Lindsay (left) and Sophia Cook at a memorial benefit for their father, Dennis Cook, who was killed on Sept. 11, 2001. (Courtesy Lindsay Cook)

As ‘9/11 Kids,' We Only Have The Stories Other People Tell Us About Our Dad

Sophia and Lindsay Cook were too young when their father died to have many memories of him. Now, 20 years after 9/11, they’re still trying to understand who he was,...

Cognoscenti

12:33Sep 10, 2021

Emal Ahmadi shows a photo of his family member who was killed during a U.S. drone strike on their home, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2021. Ahmadi says Sunday's U.S. drone strike killed 10 members of his family, six of them children. Senior U.S. military officials said the drone strike hit an Islamic State target. (Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi/AP)

The True Toll Of 9/11

Our reflex of seeing faraway faces as cardboard masks may help us survive the world’s violence — but also keeps us from altering it, writes Janna Malamud Smith.

Cognoscenti

Sep 10, 2021

A New York City Police officer stands guard near the World Trade Center site on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011, in New York City during the 10th anniversary since 9/11. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Militarization Of Police 'Ramped Up' After 9/11, 'Rise Of The Warrior Cop' Author Says

Federal grant money increased police access to military-grade equipment in the two decades since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

09:40Sep 9, 2021

The SNL stage on display during a media preview on May 29, 2015, at the Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition, celebrating the NBC program's 40-year history. (Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

How Satire's Relationship With The War In Afghanistan Has Changed — And How It Hasn't

A sketch from Saturday Night Live shortly after Sept. 11 that skewered pro-war elites was recently portrayed on social media as actually being pro-war itself.

05:11Sep 9, 2021

An American flag is left at the North pool memorial site before a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the National Sept. 11 Memorial (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Remembering 9/11, 20 Years Later

We revisit the voices we talked with 20 years ago.

11:07Sep 9, 2021

Welles Crowther in his Boston College uniform. (Courtesy of Alison Crowther)

'Without Him, I Wouldn't Be Here': Remembering 'The Red Bandana Man,' Who Saved Lives On 9/11

Welles Crowther was killed while saving people during the attacks. The 24-year-old was a former volunteer fireman who worked as an equities trader on South Tower's 104th floor.

11:03Sep 9, 2021

A week after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a newspaper vendor sells copies of the New York Daily News with the face of Osama bin Laden and a cowboy-era outlaw's headline of 'Dead or Alive,' September 18, 2001.(Richard Baker/ Getty Images)

For My Journalism Students, Much Of 9/11 Is A Case Study Of What Not To Do

As we mark the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, writes Eileen McNamara, let’s not forget the abandonment by too many in the media of the skepticism and rigorous reporting...

Cognoscenti

Sep 9, 2021

What Do You Do In A World Gone Mad? You Bake

Life is uncertain and often cruel. 'Crisis baking' can offer predictability and a sweet ending, writes Joanna Weiss.

Cognoscenti

Sep 9, 2021

The 9/11 Memorial at the Public Garden on Sept. 10, 2020 in Boston. (Matt Stone/ MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

For These Local 20-Year-Olds, There Was Never A 'Before 9/11'

The young adults born in 2001 are too young to remember the 9/11 attacks or their immediate aftermath firsthand — but it's still a major event that has shaped nearly...

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08:17Sep 8, 2021