{"id":740991,"date":"2021-09-11T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=740991"},"modified":"2021-09-11T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:50:52","slug":"9-11s-iconic-photos-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-11s-iconic-photos-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11\u2019s Iconic Photos, 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F9-11s-iconic-photos-20-years-later%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=740991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1339505.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We all remember the terrifying images from September 11, 2001: The towers on fire, people covered in dust and soot as they evacuated the area, our first responders and other heroes who stepped in to save as many people as they could.<\/p>\n<p>These images are seared into our minds. Now, 20 years later, the photographers and subjects of these photos have spoken out to various news outlets about their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/iconic-911-photos-20-years-later\">spoke<\/a> to Yoni Brook, who was a 19-year-old sophomore at New York University when the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists. Brook had done some freelance work for The Washington Post and said he was contacted by his editors to see if he would cover the attacks. Brook grabbed his camera and headed toward the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sort of found myself \u2013 this was maybe an hour after the collapse \u2013 just there, kind of alone, seemingly alone,\u201d Brook told Fox. \u201cIt was just like everybody was in shock around it. There were a few firefighters, there were a few rescue people, but it was mostly very quiet and eerie for the first two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Brook captured a photo of Woodmere, Long Island volunteer firefighter Michael Sauer as he drank water from a fire hydrant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.4375\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Iconic 9\/11 photos and the photographers who shot them: Here are their stories <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gLarT1ooSi\">https:\/\/t.co\/gLarT1ooSi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1436585299014926338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was still sort of a moment of initial shock,\u201d Brook told Fox. \u201cThere was an eerie quiet. And there wasn\u2019t like a ton of equipment down there. There weren\u2019t cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/photos-that-defined-9-11-and-the-people-in-them20-years-later-11631246461?mod=e2tw\">spoke<\/a> to Sauer, who still gets choked up talking about his experiences on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re walking around and listening for anyone banging or any sign of life,\u201d Mr. Sauer told the Journal. \u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re there for, to try to help and hopefully get someone to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told the outlet that he remembered the calls to and from other firefighters alerting others to another body. \u201cWe didn\u2019t find anybody other than the parts we found,\u201d he told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he and his colleagues went hours without water as they searched for survivors and victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like there was a water fountain you could go to,\u201d Sauer told the Journal. \u201cThis thing was just standing out there by itself with water coming out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was washing the dirt off his face when he noticed his photo was being taken. Sauer is still a volunteer firefighter and sends a text to Brook, who took the iconic photo of him, every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this bond,\u201d Sauer told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s just a bond of that day, and him putting me in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me it feels like it was just the other day,\u201d he added. \u201cNot a day goes by that I don\u2019t think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Doug Mills captured the well-known photos of former President George W. Bush at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, where he received the news of the terrorist attack. Mills told Fox that while he was in Bush\u2019s motorcade heading to the school, he was informed that there was a \u201csmall plane crash in New York City,\u201d but that the information was \u201creally sketchy, just basically saying there\u2019s been a small plane that\u2019s hit a building.\u201d He said it didn\u2019t seem like a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes after they arrived at the school, however, Bush\u2019s chief of staff, Andy Card, came into the room and gave the president the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, at one point he walked up to the president\u2026 and whispered in his ear,\u201d Mills told Fox. \u201cIt was obvious he\u2019d given him some very important news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills didn\u2019t know what Card said at the time, but later learned the chief of staff told Bush: \u201cA second aircraft has just hit the World Trade Center. America is under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills told Fox that the \u201cpower and the weight of those words are obviously overwhelming and obviously very historic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Journal spoke to numerous people who were photographed dazed and covered in grit, including Jonathan Markowitz, who was 46 at the time of the attacks. Markowitz \u201cwas in a conference room in the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. when he heard a huge bang, felt the building sway and learned from a colleague that a plane had just hit,\u201d the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Markowitz was based in Chicago but had traveled to New York and was on the 85<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the North Tower when the plane hit. The Journal reported that Markowitz and his colleagues \u201cbegan moving down the stairs, which grew hotter and more crowded by the minute, but the descent was orderly.\u201d When they reached the concourse level they were told to \u201cget down\u201d as a massive wall of dust and debris flew across the room. They later learned it was the result of the South Tower collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Then everything was quiet and dark. Markowitz told the Journal that he grabbed a shirt form his briefcase to help him breathe and joined two of his colleagues as they exited the building and found the street. He said everything was like a black-and-white horror film, covered in dust.<\/p>\n<p>Another person photographed in such a landscape was Joanne Capestro, who told the Journal that \u201cEverything was white when I opened my eyes, I really thought I had died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capestro was on the 87<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the North Tower when the plane hit just six floors above. Capestro and her colleagues fled the building using the stairs. At the 30<sup>th<\/sup> floor, her co-worker, Harry Ramos stopped to help someone, telling the rest of the group, \u201cI\u2019ll meet you outside.\u201d They never saw him again.<\/p>\n<p>Capestro told the Journal that she still has survivor\u2019s guilt over the experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really, really, really in bad shape,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cIt took me months to wake up and say, \u2018I\u2019ve got to put my best foot forward.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, she delivered her clothes from the attacks to the 9\/11 Memorial &amp; Museum. They were still covered with dust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you tell people you were in the World Trade Center, they say, \u2018Oh, across the street?\u2019 \u201d Capestro told the Journal. \u201cThey don\u2019t realize what I went through. They don\u2019t realize what I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the terrifying images from September 11, 2001: The towers on fire, people covered in dust and soot as they evacuated the area, our first responders and other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893815,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}