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Located just 23 miles from the nation’s capital & along the dynamic “Corridor of Military History,” the American Wartime Experience will illustrate how the nation’s wars have changed the lives of our citizens & defined the character the country.

The Voices of Freedom will be out at the Culpeper Air Fest today from 0900 - 1500. Great show. Come out and say 👋.
10/10/2026

The Voices of Freedom will be out at the Culpeper Air Fest today from 0900 - 1500. Great show. Come out and say 👋.

On September 12, America Woke Up to a Different WorldThe fires were still burning.Rescue workers were searching the rubb...
12/09/2026

On September 12, America Woke Up to a Different World

The fires were still burning.

Rescue workers were searching the rubble.

Families were waiting for news that, for many, would never come.

And across the United States, millions of Americans were trying to comprehend what had happened.

But September 12 was also the beginning of something else.

Thousands of Americans would soon raise their right hands and volunteer for military service.

Others would become firefighters, police officers, intelligence officers, doctors, nurses and public servants.

American forces would soon deploy to Afghanistan.

Some would spend the next two decades deploying again and again.

Children who watched the attacks on television would grow up and go to war because of them.

For those Americans, September 11 wasn’t simply a historical event.

It became part of their own story.

Twenty-five years later, remembering 9/11 also means remembering the generation that answered what came next.

We are at Mission BBQ on Plank Road in Fredericksburg today. Stop by and help us remember those who made the ultimate sa...
11/09/2026

We are at Mission BBQ on Plank Road in Fredericksburg today. Stop by and help us remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001 so others could live.

25 Years8:46 a.m. — American Airlines Flight 11 strikes the North Tower.9:03 a.m. — United Airlines Flight 175 strikes t...
11/09/2026

25 Years

8:46 a.m. — American Airlines Flight 11 strikes the North Tower.

9:03 a.m. — United Airlines Flight 175 strikes the South Tower.

9:37 a.m. — American Airlines Flight 77 strikes the Pentagon.

9:59 a.m. — The South Tower collapses.

10:03 a.m. — United Airlines Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew fight back against the hijackers.

10:28 a.m. — The North Tower collapses.

In just 102 minutes, the world changed.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed.

But numbers alone cannot tell the story of September 11.

They were husbands and wives.

Mothers and fathers.

Sons and daughters.

Friends and coworkers.

Firefighters, police officers and service members.

Passengers and flight crews.

People who went to work that morning expecting to come home that evening.

Twenty-five years later, we remember them.

And we remember those who ran toward the danger, those who carried strangers to safety, those who fought back aboard Flight 93, and the countless Americans whose lives were forever changed by what happened that morning.

A generation has now grown to adulthood with no memory of September 11, 2001.

That makes preserving these stories more important, not less.

We remember.

We tell their stories.

We do not forget.

By 9:30 a.m., the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 knew something was terribly wrong.Their aircraft had ...
10/09/2026

By 9:30 a.m., the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 knew something was terribly wrong.

Their aircraft had been hijacked.

Through telephone calls from the airplane, they began learning something the hijackers did not intend them to know:

Two airplanes had already struck the World Trade Center.

They understood what that meant.

Their aircraft wasn’t simply being hijacked.

It was going to be used as a weapon.

Passengers and crew began discussing what they could do.

Then they acted.

At approximately 9:57 a.m., they launched their counterattack.

For the next several minutes, they fought to regain control of the aircraft.

At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Everyone aboard was killed.

The aircraft was roughly 20 minutes flying time from Washington.

We will never know with certainty what would have happened had those passengers and crew members done nothing.

We do know what they chose to do.

They fought back.

When the World Trade Center was attacked, six members of Brooklyn’s FDNY Squad 252 responded.Lt. Timothy Higgins and fir...
10/09/2026

When the World Trade Center was attacked, six members of Brooklyn’s FDNY Squad 252 responded.

Lt. Timothy Higgins and firefighters Tarel Coleman, Thomas Kuveikis, Peter Langone, Patrick Lyons and Kevin Prior went into the North Tower.

Squad 252 was part of the FDNY’s Special Operations Command — firefighters trained for some of the department’s most difficult rescue operations.

Inside the North Tower, members of Squad 252 worked to help people escape.

None of the six came home.

On September 11, 343 FDNY firefighters were killed.

Twenty-five years later, their sacrifice reminds us of something extraordinary about first responders:

While thousands of people desperately tried to escape the danger, they were moving toward it.

Squad 252 wasn’t an ordinary fire company.As part of the FDNY’s Special Operations Command, its firefighters were traine...
09/09/2026

Squad 252 wasn’t an ordinary fire company.

As part of the FDNY’s Special Operations Command, its firefighters were trained for difficult rescues — the people called when a situation demanded capabilities beyond those of a typical fire company.

On September 11, Squad 252 responded to the World Trade Center.

Records of FDNY operations place the company inside the North Tower, including work on the 20th floor helping remove occupants from an elevator.

Six members of the squad were killed when the towers collapsed.

Their story is one of hundreds from that morning.

Their job was to go where everyone else was trying to escape.

And they went.

The Morning Began Like Any OtherAt 8:42 a.m. on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark Inter...
08/09/2026

The Morning Began Like Any Other

At 8:42 a.m. on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark International Airport.

It was 25 minutes late.

That seemingly insignificant delay would become part of history.

Four minutes later, at 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

At 9:03, United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower.

At 9:37, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.

And aboard Flight 93, passengers began learning through telephone calls what had happened in New York.

They realized their airplane was part of the attack.

What happened next would become one of the most remarkable stories of courage from September 11.

25 Years Ago, America Was Three Days Away From Changing ForeverTwenty-five years ago today, September 11 was simply anot...
08/09/2026

25 Years Ago, America Was Three Days Away From Changing Forever

Twenty-five years ago today, September 11 was simply another date on the calendar.

People went to work. Children went to school. Travelers boarded airplanes. Firefighters began their shifts.

No one knew that in three days, thousands of ordinary Americans would find themselves at the center of one of the defining events in our nation’s history.

This week, as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, we will share some of their stories — stories of ordinary people, first responders, service members, survivors and those who never came home.

For those who remember that morning, September 11 is a memory.

For an entire generation of Americans, it is history.

It is our responsibility to make sure they understand both what happened — and who was there.

We remember.

Yesterday we moved the FDNY Squad 252 engine from the Tank Farm to the McCoart Building located on the Prince William Co...
05/09/2026

Yesterday we moved the FDNY Squad 252 engine from the Tank Farm to the McCoart Building located on the Prince William County Parkway. The engine will remain on display for the next two weeks. There will be a ceremony commemorating the September 11th terrorist attacks on September 10th at McCoart. Details to follow.

FDNY Squad Company 252, based in Brooklyn, was one of the elite Special Operations Command units that responded to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Squad companies were trained not only for firefighting but for technical rescue, including rescuing trapped civilians and other firefighters.

Squad 252 responded to the North Tower (WTC 1) with six men: Lt. Timothy Higgins and Firefighters Peter Langone, Kevin Prior, Thomas Kuveikis, Tarel Coleman, and Patrick Lyons. They reported to the North Tower command post and began operating inside the building.

Around the 20th floor, Squad 252 encountered civilians trapped in an elevator. They freed them and brought them back down to the lobby.

They could have remained downstairs.

Instead, the six men turned around and began climbing the North Tower again, reportedly in response to a Mayday from Rescue Company 1 somewhere above them.

They never came back down.

When the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m., all six members of Squad 252 were killed.

The engine became a part of our collection in 2012 when it was donated by the New York City Port Authority. It is one of only 4 vehicles recovered and preserved.

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