Picture Of The Day

Duane Matters was living near Boston when terrorists hijacked four planes on September 11, 2001 and used them to crash into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon near Washington DC, and one that ended up in an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. The attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. A geologist by training, Matters was sent by the construction company he was then working for, AMEC, to help with the cleanup and recovery effort at what became known as Ground Zero, the 16-acre site of the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan. Above, a New York City firefighter acts as a spotter during the early morning 16 days after the attacks while a grappler works on the debris. The Fire Department of the City of New York, known as the FDNY, lost 343 of their own on 9/11

WNU Editor: The above picture came from this photo-gallery .... After the Towers fell: Indelible Ground Zero images capture the iron workers, firefighters and a geologist who toiled for 12-hour shifts amid the rubble, ruins and remains left in the wake of 9/11 (Daily Mail).