AP Journalists Reflect on 9/11 Witnessing 25 Years Later

A quarter century after the September 11 attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives, the journalists who bore witness that morning are offering something history rarely preserves with such intimacy: the experience of documenting catastrophe from within it. Associated Press reporters and photographers who stood in the streets of New York and outside the Pentagon in 2001 now reflect on what it meant to report the truth in real time, while the truth was still forming. Their accounts remind us that journalism, at its most essential, is an act of collective memory — a way of ensuring that what a civilizati