The man who served as press secretary to President George W Bush has tweeted a minute-by-minute account of the day of the attacks.
President Bush was reading The Pet Goat to schoolchildren in Florida when the dreadful news was whispered in his ear.
Ari Fleischer, his press secretary, was with him and recounted in his tweets the moments of the day that changed American history.
"8:40am, 9-11, 2001: I was in the motorcade 4 the drive from the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort in Sarasota, FL 2the Emma Booker Elem. School," he recounted.
"8:46 Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower. The motorcade was a few minutes away from arriving at the school."
One of Mr Fleischer's tweets. Pic: https://twitter.com/AriFleischer "Approx 8:50: I got a page on my pager (we didn't have blackberries then and the iPhone hadn't been invented) telling me a plane hit the WTC."
The President initially was informed it was an "accident" but Mr Fleischer tweeted: "I wrote on back of a legal pad 'DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET". I wanted him 2b briefed b4 talking. I put my back to the press & held up the sign."
The tweets make for a riveting account.
Mr Fleischer said Mr Bush's much-criticised decision not to leave immediately was meant to "collect his thoughts and send a signal of calm".
At 9:30 Mr Bush addressed a group in the gym, and few people at that point knew of the attack, Mr Fleischer said, noting "No Twitter then".
Mr Fleischer recalled the President's words that a "national tragedy" had struck.
"We boarded the motorcade and drove [fast] to Air Force One, planning for a return to Washington, DC."
"9:37 American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon."
"POTUS is told of attack on the Pentagon by either the Secret Service in the front of the limo, or by Condi on the phone. I don't remember."
He also said there was a report if a sniper at the end of the runway.
"9:59 The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses."
"10:07 United Flight 93 crashes in a field in Pennsylvania."
He said the Secret Service did not want Mr Bush to go back to Washington, thinking the White House could be a target.
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