9/11: Five Years Later- msnbc.com

Msnbc.com's Martin Wolk was at the World Trade Center when the terrorists struck on Sept. 11. Five years later, he tracked down two people who helped him that day — and examined his own, in some ways controversial, reaction to the events.

________________________________

How I chose family over job on 9/11

Tracking down a humble NYC angel

A chance encounter with a WTC hero

MSNBC TV REMEMBERS 9/11

Rehema Ellis: There was no sound

Ron Reagan: Missed chances, squandered opportunities

Keith Olbermann: Special comment on 9/11

Hilary Rosen: I want my security back

Bob Shrum: A day without politics

Joe Alicastro: A view from Rome

Interactive

The war on terror
Learn about attacks, arrests and other major incidents in global terrorism since 1993. Click "Launch" to view.

Readers tell how 9/11 changed them

We asked MSNBC.com users to tell how their lives were transformed by Sept. 11 and its aftermath. Here, in their own words, are some of their stories.

_____________________________________

Relationships, kids and family reevaluated

Beliefs are transformed or reinforced

Births (and birthdays) forever changed

Scorched by the scourge of post-9/11 racism

Forever mourning lost loved ones

Drawn to serve in the war on terror

Lives, careers and dreams transformed

INTERACTIVE

How 9/11 changed us
In their own words — as well as audio and photos — Americans tell, for better and for worse, how the September 11 attacks transformed their lives.

9/11: How msnbc.com saw it then

	Attack on America See images from MSNBC.com's day-of coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
	After the attacks See images MSNBC.com used in its coverage of the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
AP	A changed world From the U.S. and around the world, see images MSNBC.com featured in the weeks following 9/11.

PLEASE NOTE: These galleries contain images that may be disturbing to some users.

9/11 video galleries

	Archival video: NBC News covers Sept. 11, 2001
	Newsmakers' reflections on the attacks
	Dateline staff reflects on covering the attacks
	CNBC remembers
	Home video: NBC Digital Media staffer revisits 2001 footage

PLEASE NOTE: These galleries contain images that may be disturbing to some users.

INTERACTIVE

Know 9/11? Take our super-tough quiz

September 11 was one of the biggest news stories of all time, and certainly the most widely covered (including by the burgeoning Internet). But how much were you taking in?

‘Dante’s Inferno’
Video: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., tells MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that Ground Zero was “as close to a visual depiction of hell as I've ever seen.”

Clinton: ‘So real to me because I knew people’

Powell: ‘Long after you’ve gone to hell’

Powell: ‘How could this be? But it was.’

Rice: ‘They were out to bring us down’

Negroponte: ‘No absolute guarantee’

McCain: ‘We passed up an opportunity’

Hughes: ‘I want a hamburger’