Today we remember and honor those who died in the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. People continue to die of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks. Ainsworth Fire Chief Waylon Schultz tells KCII News that while older people remember the significance of the attacks, younger people often don’t. He says it’s important for them to be taught, so that they “understand what tragedy really looks like, and what could potentially happen someday, and know that there are people out there that are willing to help them at all costs no matter what.”