sr8olguin:

Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg

Some amazing statistics from that day, courtesy of: http://www.guardian.co.uk (numbers are approximations)

• Year the World Trade Centre was built: 1970
• Number of companies housed in the WTC: 430
• Number working in World Trade Centre on average working day prior to 11 September: 50,000
• Average number of daily visitors: 140,000
• Number killed in attack on New York, in the Twin Towers and in aircraft that crashed into them: 2,823
• Distance, in miles, from which the burning towers were visible: 20
• Maximum heat of fires, in degrees fahrenheit, at World Trade Center site: 2,300
• Number of days underground fires at World Trade Centre continued to burn: 69
• Number of days that workers dug up debris at Ground Zero, searching for body parts: 230
• Number of body parts collected: 19,500
• Number of bodies discovered intact: 291
• Number of victims identified by New York medical examiner: 1,102
• Number of death certificates issued without a body at request of victims’ families: 1,616
• Number of people still classified as missing from the World Trade Centre that day: 105
• Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center: 92
• Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 175 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center: 65
• Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania: 45
• Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon: 64
• Number of peole killed in the Pentagon: 125
• Number of survivors rescued from Ground Zero: 0

A day Americans will never forget.

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