60 NYT > Sept. 11, 2001 - Narrowed by 'TZEMIS, JENNIFER LYNN' http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/index.ctx?field=per&match=exact&query=TZEMIS, JENNIFER LYNN&&partner=rssnyt &lt;p&gt;It was the day when the unreal became the unimaginable. Sept. 11, 2001, the crystalline morning when planes dropped from the skies and toppled the World Trade Center and punctured a hole in the Pentagon, was a demarcation point that shattered the security of the country and introduced a nebulous and virulent enemy previously unfamiliar to most citizens. Nearly 3,000 people died that morning, the vast majority of them in the gnarled rubble of the Lower Manhattan towers, others at the Pentagon and in a rural Pennsylvania field. A numbed country with red-rimmed eyes came to understand the ugly menace of terrorism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The echoes of that horrific day have radiated outward in myriad directions, indelibly altering peoples concept of what it means to feel safe in the modern world. Investigations were undertaken into how something of such magnitude could have happened, and conspiracy theorists trotted out diverging notions. A war on terror was set in motion that gravitated from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq. The long-running and problematic Iraq war has opened fissures in the nation and abroad, and advanced to the forefront of political dialogue. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="showhidetxt"&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:toggleLayer('moretxt'); javascript:toggleLayer2('more');" title="More" id="more"&gt;Read More...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;div id="moretxt"&gt; &lt;p&gt; But 9/11 has touched off controversies and debates on multiple levels: over the extent of the damage to the health of those who toiled in the debris pit of the fallen towers or occupied the downtown area; over &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/reconstruction/index.html"&gt;what to rebuild&lt;/a&gt; on what many see as sacred burial ground; over domestic spying and what is acceptable interrogation of suspected terrorists; and even over &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/memorials/index.html"&gt;how to continue to commemorate&lt;/a&gt; the actual anniversary of that dark day. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; As new bursts of terrorism have brought death and shattered nerves elsewhere in the world, the specter of 9/11 continues to resonate in the national consciousness. It was a day that marked the start of another time that, six years later, has had an aftermath but not an end. &lt;em style="i"&gt;-- N.R. Kleinfield, Sept. 7, 2007&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="showhidetxt"&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:toggleLayer('more'); javascript:toggleLayer2('moretxt');" title="Hide" id="more"&gt;Hide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company en-us 20 Dec 2013 01:00:00 EST http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif NYT http://www.nytimes.com A NATION CHALLENGED: PORTRAITS OF GRIEF: THE VICTIMS; Baseball and Basketball Fans, Grandmother's Comfort, Military Buff http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/nyregion/nation-challenged-portraits-grief-victims-baseball-basketball-fans-grandmother-s.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Here are glimpses of some of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. WILLIAM J. MAHONEY II Sportsman and Handyman William J. Mahoney II was an Adonis who did not sculpture his sleek physique at the gym. He was a player, and baseball was his game. Mr. Mahoney, 37, coached his children's baseball teams and played center field in two adult leagues. A firefighter at Rescue Company 4 in Elmhurst, Queens, he was sentimental in his approach to the game. He had scribbled his wife's name inside his baseball glove. He also insisted that his family perform a good luck ritual before every game. These sketches were written by Celestine Bohlen, Sherri Day, Anthony DePalma, Aaron Donovan, Constance L. Hays, Lynette Holloway, Leslie Kaufman, Tarannum Kamlani, N. R. Kleinfield, Melena Ryzik and Ben Sisario Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0500