remembering 9/11

On the 20th anniversary of September 11, the town of Windsor found a way to pay tribute to the victims of that day with their 9/11 Walk of Light Remembrance Ceremony.

On Saturday, it was about remembering all those who parished 20 years ago.

Teaching the leaders of tomorrow about 9/11 exceeds the borders of CCSU’s campus.

It was Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Richard Shiffrin was at the Pentagon where he was deputy general counsel for intelligence in the Defense Department.

It was Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Richard Shiffrin was at the Pentagon where he was deputy general counsel for intelligence in the Defense Department. He just got a call that the twin towers in New York were hit. In his Northern Virginia office, just outside Washington, he turned on the TV and hung up the phone. “I think I felt,…

It isn’t every day our teachers have to live through the history they must now teach our children. But for those who were in the classroom the morning of Sept. 11, they too learned some lessons that will stick with them for a lifetime.

Judy Keane, who lost her husband in the Sept. 11 attacks, has made it a mission to turn the tragedy into a positive for her community in Wethersfield.

Saturday marks 20 years since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. and state flags across Connecticut will be lowered to half-staff and the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven will be illuminated in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks. From sunrise to sunset on Saturday, flags will be lowered, and the governor…

This Saturday will mark 20 years since the Sept. 11 attacks. On Thursday, Connecticut paused to remember the 161 victims with ties to Connecticut.

Twenty years ago a Bosnian boy arrived in the U.S. thinking he was safe from the violence in his country. Hours later he witnessed the World Trade Center under attack.

Most students today are too young to remember the events of 9/11, so teachers at all levels have to consider how to teach such an important topic.

It was a day that changed the world as we knew it. On Sept. 11, 2001, out of a clear blue sky came an attack that would bring America to its knees. Countless lives were changed forever. It would start a war that would span two decades. And now, 20 years later, Connecticut remembers.

NBC Connecticut Anchor Keisha Grant sat down with Holly Rzonca, who was teaching the day of the 9/11 attacks. She recalls how she coped with letting their students know of the events, and how the experience has shaped her teaching methods ever since.

There are just a handful of Connecticut television reporters who covered the terrorist attack at the twin towers who are still working in our state. Among them, NBC Connecticut Chief Investigative Reporter Len Besthoff.

Wethersfield is one of many Connecticut communities that lost its citizens when the twin towers fell. A new 9/11 exhibit in town, designed by a widow of one of the Wethersfield victims aims to teach people who are unfamiliar with the tragedy, and give new perspective to those who remember it, 20 years later. Judy Keane and a team of…

It isn’t every day our teachers have to live through the history they must now teach our children. But for those who were in the classroom the morning of Sept. 11, they too learned some lessons that will stick with them for a lifetime.

There are just a handful of Connecticut television reporters who covered the terrorist attack at the twin towers who are still working in our state. Among them, NBC Connecticut Chief Investigative Reporter Len Besthoff.

It was a day that changed the world as we knew it. On Sept. 11, 2001, out of a clear blue sky came an attack that would bring America to its knees. Countless lives were changed forever. It would start a war that would span two decades. And now, 20 years later, Connecticut remembers.

There were 2,977 lives lost at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and inside the four hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001. But not all the heroes of 9/11 died on that one day.

There were 2,977 lives lost at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and inside the four hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001. But not all the heroes of 9/11 died on that one day.