25 YEARS: Those who were alive and old enough at the time remember where they were and what they were doing just as they did the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Today marks 25 years since the September 11^th  terrorist attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers. 

  It has become traditional to ring a bell to commemorate critical moments from that morning. Today they will ring a newly-cast bell from Italy supported in part by steel from the wreckage of the Trade Center. The bell tolls at:

8:46 a.m. – Flight 11 strikes the North Tower 9:03 a.m. – Flight 175 strikes the South Tower 9:37 a.m. – Flight 77 strikes the Pentagon 9:59 a.m. – South Tower collapses 10:03 a.m. – Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, PA 10:28 a.m. – North Tower collapses 12:30 p.m. – Final toll for first responders killed in...