History
The exact calendar date on which Patriot Day is celebrated yearly.
What is 9/11 or September 11th?
This major commercial and financial complex in Lower Manhattan was the primary target of the 2001 attacks.
What is the World Trade Center?
This 1,776-foot skyscraper, built to replace the Twin Towers, is officially named this but is widely known as the "Freedom Tower."
What is One World Trade Center?
This is the current number of stars displayed on the modern American flag.
What is 50?
To honor the unity that followed 9/11, millions of Americans use Patriot Day to perform this charitable, unpaid activity to assist their local communities.
What is Community Service or Volunteer Work?
This U.S. President signed the initial joint resolution proclaiming Patriot Day in December 2001.
Who was George W. Bush?
This multi-sided Virginia headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense was struck during the attacks.
What is the Pentagon?
The National 9/11 Memorial features two massive reflecting pools situated exactly within these specific structural outlines.
What are the footprints of the original Twin Towers, bottom of the former World Trade Center, or Foundation of the original Twin Towers?
The 13 horizontal stripes on the U.S. flag represent these original historical entities.
What are the 13 original colonies?
The approximate number of lives lost on 9/11, including police, fire department, and other law enforcement personnel.
What is 3,000?
In 2009, Congress passed legislation that also designated this day as a National Day of Service and this other "R" word.
What is Rememberance?
Thanks to the heroic intervention of its passengers, this specific flight crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, instead of reaching Washington, D.C.
What was Flight 93?
This Callery pear tree, heavily damaged at Ground Zero but nursed back to health, is a famous living symbol of resilience known by this name.
What is the Survivor Tree?
This fierce, majestic bird was officially designated as the national symbol of the United States in 1782.
What is the Bald Eagle?
This is the amount of were evacuated from Manhattan by boats, tugboats, and ferries, making it the largest water evacuation in history
What is roughly 500,000 people?
According to federal law, all individuals and organizations are encouraged to observe this at 8:46 AM EDT on Patriot Day.
What is a moment of silence?
These emergency personnel suffered the highest number of first-responder casualties during the attacks, losing 343 members
Who were the FDNY or Firefighters?
This stunning architectural transit hub and shopping center, designed by Santiago Calatrava near the memorial site, resembles a bird being released from a child's hands.
What is the Oculus?
This is the official title of the United States national anthem, penned by Francis Scott Key.
What is "The Star Spangled Banner"?
The amount of debris cleared after recovery and cleanup effort at Ground Zero took nine months, officially concluding on May 30, 2002?
What is 1.8 million tons?
This federal mandate requires American flags worldwide to fly at this specific height on Patriot Day.
What is Half-Staff or Half-Mast?
This classification of radar-guided civilian planes was hijacked during the morning of 9/11.
Who are Boeing Aircraft or Commercial Airlines?
Every year on the anniversary, this public art installation illuminates the NYC sky with 88 searchlights to project two beams of light where the towers once stood.
What is the Tribute in Light?
On the Great Seal of the United States, this Latin phrase translates to "Out of many, one."
This brave canine led her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs to the safe home of a friend.
Who was Rosell?