September 11, 2001 Front page of the Observer after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with the headline “Terror Hits Home” and a photograph of the New York World Trade Center buildings on fire. [Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.] Mass on South Quad after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks[Photo by Heather Gollatz] Notre Dame Thomas Coleman Fire Station draped in black buntingand with a firefighter coat and helmet outside on the bench in memorial of the firefighters in New York and Washington, D.C., 2001/0912[Photo by Heather Gollatz]