Quarter-life Travels: 9/11 in Images

Tribute in Light installation by The Municipal Arts Society New York (photo via aceface.org)

Today marks the 10th year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands of innocent lives and has shocked the whole world. I remember on that day in 2001 watching on CNN those United Airlines plane crashing into those two towers and feeling terrible for seeing it in such immediacy, having happened only a few hours ago. That was real-life, it was no Hollywood movie that one must see first, if at all. And yet, here we are as real-time technology would have it: informed and affected and just because we saw it. Vision is a powerful sense, and pictures paint a thousand words. Most news and media websites have recently created photo galleries to commemorate the tragic event. The photos are terrifying, unsettling, haunting and wrenching. All depict a certain moment, as if frozen in time, to tell a story of a day that will always be remembered.