Monday marks the 22nd anniversary of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
That morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Newark and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
The planes were flown into the iconic World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and a field in western Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost that day, but the impacts continue to be felt.
According to a 2021 report from the Department of Justice and the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), the U.S. government now believes more people have died due to 9/11-related illnesses than those who died during the initial attacks.
"It is also sobering to see that more people are now believed to have died of 9/11-related illnesses than were lost on September 11, 2001," the report said.
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