BERLIN — Area residents responded to a request on Facebook for their memories of where they were and what they personally experienced on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. They were also asked their thoughts on all that has happened as a result of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks.

On that day, terrorists flew airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001. Passengers on the Pennsylvania plane — United Airlines Flight 93 — are credited with overtaking the hijackers in a plane believed destined for the U.S. Capitol. The North Tower was struck first by American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m. on a beautiful, calm, blue-sky day. At 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower. At 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon. At 10:03 a.m., the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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