The 9/11 images that still haunt journalists who witnessed the tragedy 25 years later
- 11, 2001, Karen Matthews was inside her Manhattan apartment preparing her three-year-old daughter for preschool when an unfamiliar, thunderous boom echoed outside.
- Clutching her young child, she stepped onto the street.
- Onlookers were gazing upward at a gaping hole in the World Trade Center’s north tower, where dark smoke poured into the sky only a short distance from her residence.
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- 11, 2001, Karen Matthews was inside her Manhattan apartment preparing her three-year-old daughter for preschool when an unfamiliar, thunderous boom echoed outside.
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- Clutching her young child, she stepped onto the street.
- Onlookers were gazing upward at a gaping hole in the World Trade Center’s north tower, where dark smoke poured into the sky only a short distance from her residence.
Sources: The Independent