Reflecting on 25 years since 9/11

MPR News with Angela Davis · Sep 10, 2026 · 46m

For those who lived through it, the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 remains a defining moment. But an entire generation has now grown up since the attacks.

That morning, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes. Two crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, one hit the Pentagon, and passengers on the fourth plane fought back before it crashed in rural Pennsylvania.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks, with thousands more later dying from illnesses linked to the toxic debris.

9/11 changed the United States in lasting ways. It altered the country’s sense of safety, brought many…