September 11th
Responding to a person at ground zero on 9/11 yelling, "I can't hear you!"
Bush, George W. Remarks at World Trade Center site. 14 Sept. 2001, New York City, NY, USA.
Bin Laden, Osama. Quoted in "Text: Bin Laden Discusses Attacks on Tape." Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2001. Originally stated to a group of supporters. Nov. 2001, possibly in Qandahar, Afghanistan.
Phone call to his wife from Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.
Burnett, Thomas E. Stated on a phone call with his wife just before the plane he was on went down outside of Pittsburgh. 11 Sept. 2001.
Heard by a telephone operator on September 11, 2001 on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 as Todd Beamer and other passengers planned to storm the cockpit. Minutes later, the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
Beamer, Todd. Quoted in "A Sky Filled with Chaos, Uncertainty and True Heroism." Written by Charles Lane, Don Phillips, and David Snyder. The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 2001. Originally overheard by a telephone operator. United Airlines Flight 93, 11 Sept. 2001.
Blair, Tony. Statement after September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, London, England, UK. Broadcast.
Sontag, Susan. "The Talk of the Town: Tuesday, and After." The New Yorker, 24 Sept. 2001. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town
On the last messages received from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.