EVB2947893: World Trade Center Ground Zero site under reconstruction Sept. 8, 2011. Three days before the 10th anniversary of 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is taking shape. In the Hudson River is the USS NEW YORK, built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in her bow. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947920: President George W. Bush visits World Trade Center ruins in New York, Sept. 14, 2001. With him from left are: NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik; Sen. Chuck Schumer; and NY Gov. George Pataki. The group is on Vesey Street, on the north side of the World Trade Center complex / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947935: President George W. Bush holds the badge of a Port Authority Police officer killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Bush 43 said, 'I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others', during his speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept 20, 2001 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947947: President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act on Oct. 26,2001. 'This new law that I sign today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including e-mails, the Internet, and cell phones.' Standing behind Bush 43 from left are: U.S. AG, John Ashcroft; Sen. Orrin Hatch; Sen. Patrick Leahy; Sen. Harry Reid; Rep. James Sensenbrenner, and Sen. Bob Graham / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948076: NYC firemen checking a car on Barclay Street after the 9-11 terrorist attack on World Trade Center. In the mid-ground fireman pulls a water hose from fire truck. View is toward West Broadway and includes WTC 7, on right, clad in red exterior masonry. WTC 7 collapsed at 5:20 PM on Sept. 11, 2001, due to fires ignited by debris from the North Tower (WTC 1) destruction earlier in the day / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945966: Lt. Col. Frank Capra, receives the Legion of Merit. The Hollywood movie director was chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps motion picture production unit. He produced, 'Why We Fight', a series of pictures on events leading up to our entry into war, for use in Army orientation courses. Nov. 29, 1943. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945969: U.S. Marine Captain Louis Hayward on Tarawa. He commanded a photographic unit that filmed the a documentary titled 'With the Marines at Tarawa', which won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). At this time he was married to Ida Lupino. Dec. 6, 1943. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images