Lines to donate blood at Red Cross offices and other blood banks were incredibly long–there was an entire day’s wait in Madison, Wisconsin. Cities and towns sent firefighters and EMTs to Ground Zero. “We join with our fellow Americans in prayer for the killed and injured,” the imam at the Al-Abidin mosque in Queens told his congregation.Īt the Washington National Cathedral, the Reverend Billy Graham implored his listeners “not to implode and disintegrate emotionally and spiritually as a people and a nation,” but to “choose to become stronger through all the struggle to rebuild on a solid foundation.” And at Grace Church in Manhattan, the Reverend Bert Breiner asked parishioners to “please go forth into this world with love as though everything depended on it, because as we now know, everything does depend on it.”ĭid you know? Nearly 36,000 units of blood were donated to the New York Blood Center after the September 11 attacks.Īmericans tried to bolster the rescue effort in any way they could. Meanwhile, people turned to their faith to help them make sense of the attacks. So you get a little bit of hope in togetherness.” We all feel differently about what to do in response, but everybody seems to agree that we’ve got to be together no matter what happens. “I don’t know why I’ve been coming here, except that I’m confused,” one young man in Union Square told a reporter from the New York Times. They gathered in common places, like Chicago’s Daley Plaza, Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach and especially New York City’s Union Square Park, to post tributes to the dead and to share their grief with others. People attended impromptu candlelight vigils and participated in moments of silence. Celebrities organized benefit concerts and performances.
Others pinned it to their lapels or wore it on t-shirts. Some flew the American flag from their front porches and car antennas. Shortly after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, the nation began to mourn, and around the country Americans began to commemorate the victims and demonstrate their patriotism.
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