Hi friends, this is Elise, the managing director of Pantsew Politics.

Three years ago, we put together a deep dive into the events of September 11, 2001.

As we mark 20 years since that tragic day, it felt right to us to revisit that series.

All five of those episodes are linked in the show notes, but what you'll hear today

are the first and last parts of that series.

Just a step-by-step recounting of the day itself, followed by Sarah and Beth's 2018 visit

to and reflections on the memorial at Ground Zero in New York City.

We hope a return to these episodes will be a meaningful part of your own processing

this anniversary.

We also know that this topic still carries a lot of pain for many people, especially in

the middle of an already difficult year.

So please be gentle with yourself as you listen and reflect on the events of that day.

We'll be back with our regular content next week.

Thanks as always for listening.

In 2001, the World Trade Center complex consisted of seven buildings, which included

the Twin Towers, when those Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were at the time the

tallest buildings in the world.

Six of the seven buildings in the complex were connected by an underground shopping mall,

where it's over 13 million square feet of office space in the complex, and the World

Trade Center had initially been run by New York's port authority.

It was privatized in 1998.

I thought that the National Geographic's description written on September 13, 2011, so two days

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