The September 11 attacks killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000 others.
not to mention the people the military killed to catch al qaeda.
I was in the kitchen, having breakfast prior going to school and 9/11 footage was on TV. I would've been moved by it had I witnessed it while being close to the scene, I suppose, watching it on TV was similar to watching some block buster, e.g. Die Hard, with explosives and stuff, albeit the effects were much poorer.
In school we had a "minute of silence" for the vics and that's almost all of 9/11 here.