The Brief

It's been 24 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts," President George Bush said that night in an address to the Nation from the White House.

The attacks claimed the lives of 2,977 people.

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How many years ago was 9/11

The backstory:

It's been 24 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, or when "the United States became a nation transformed," as the 9/11 Commission Report said.

How many people died on 9/11

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes, crashing two into the Twin Towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon, and the

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