Tuesday September 11 of 2001 nearly 3000 innocent people fell victim to the disastrous event.
19 hijackers were on board with a plan that marked the biggest terrorist attack that has
ever happened on American soil. The main plan consisted of hijacking a plane that would
bring both World Trade Centers to the ground. However, the World Trade Centres were not the
only buildings that were brought down, several other infrastructures in New York and even
in Washington DC were also affected. Every single lives that were lost was precious.
Number 5
Larry Silverstein is an American businessman. Him along with his father established a real-estate
company named Silverstein Properties. Their idea was simple, to purchase numerous properties
and to resell it at a gaining value. Their main profiting area was in New York, where
they owned and resold real estate such as the Coca Cola building for 136 million dollars.
The World Trade Centre was one of their purchases. Prior to the attack, Silverstein Properties
had a temporary office that was established on the 88th floor of the North Tower. Larry
who was scheduled to be at the office that day was instead deterred by a dermatologist
appointment on the morning of September 11. Practically exchanging a day-off work to see
more days in his life.
Number 4
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York is a British writer and charity patron, she was once married
to prince Andrew, Duke of York. On the day of the attacks she was supposed to be at a
charity fundraiser located on the 101st floor of the 1st world trade centre. She was late
for the event because she was being interviewed by Matt Lauer at the NBC studios, the news
then broke that the first plane had hit. Luckily none of her charity colleagues got trapped
in the building but nearly 700 employees that provided the office space for the event
unfortunately died.
Number 3
Mark Wahlberg is majorly known for his acting role in Four Brothers, The Italian Job, Ted
and numerous box office killers. Imagine watching these movies without him playing those roles?
Hard to imagine isn't? Mark had planned to travel to Los Angeles on Flight 11 (the plane
that was hijacked by the terrorists) luckily at the last minute Mark changed his plans
and stopped in Toronto to attend the Film Festival, a flight before transferring to
Los Angeles. In previous interviews he explains that he has had numerous dreams relating to
the event, and how he was lucky to have been prevented from it.
Number 2
The show Family Guy may not been the same if Seth Macfarlane hadn't been around. The
voice actor and producer was also a thin ice away from being a victim. Just like Mark,
Seth had a flight on Flight 11 that day. He was however saved by the bell, when his manager
called him to say that his flight had left 30 minutes later than expected. This caused
him to miss his flight by few minutes to be saved from disaster.
Number 1
Rob Lowe is a famous American actor who appeared in several big movies such as The Outsiders,
Austin Powers and Oxford Blues. Ten days before 9/11, Rob was departing from Washington Dulle’s
airport. In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, he explains that “it was like any other
regular day...I was embarking a very small packed air-plane.” A year after the deadly
attack, Rob Lowe had received a mail from the attorney's general. To his surprise, the
letter read that he was to be the public defender for one of the hijackers. What he hadn't known
was that, the plane he had taken a year back passaged the terrorists responsible for 9/11,
and that exact plane (flight 93) was the very same one that went down on the field of Shanksville,
Pennsylvania on September 11 2001. The day Rob had shared the plane with the hijackers,
was the day they were testing their run.
Rest in Peace to all the victims, and let us be respectful in the comment section.