Words of empathy and caring, and a smiley face, marked just one of dozens of letters exchanged between two classes of third-grade pen pals following one of America’s darkest days: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. More.

After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, US Army Ranger veteran Jehoida (Jay) Buchanan painted an American flag on a large piece of granite setting in his yard on Whittle Lane in a display of patriotism. More.

Tom Burnett was as playful as he was bookish and often joked that he was one of the last renaissance men alive. He was a well-read history buff who couldn’t shake an illogical sense of doom that began to plague him in 2001. More.

The Tunnels to Towers Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed after the sacrifice of firefighter Stephen Siller on September 11, 2001, will be bringing its ‘Never Forget’ exhibit to town this Friday. More.

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine was consecrated Monday (July 4) in New York City. The original church, founded in 1916 on nearby Cedar Street in lower Manhattan, was destroyed in the aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11. More.

A Sept. 11 memorial in the Journal Square Plaza will be spared from demolition when the long-anticipated $821 million twin-tower One Journal Square project is built, an organizer of the annual 9/11 tribute told The Jersey Journal. More.

The final missing portrait of a victim killed in the 9/11 attacks has finally been placed in the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Antonio Dorsey Pratt, 43, was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald Forte Food Service on the 101st floor of the north tower of the old World Trade Center. More.

Most people still remember exactly what they were doing the morning of September 11th, 2001. In Southport, at their annual 4th of July festival they welcomed a Mobile Museum filled with memories of that day. More.