WWJ -- Nearly two decades after the 9/11 terror attacks, one author wants to make sure the events aren't fading from people's memories.
Mitchell Zuckoff's "Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11" was released on Tuesday, recounting the stories of what transpired that fateful day. The book, "weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day," according to the book's description on Amazon.
Speaking live on WWJ on Tuesday, author Zuckoff shared one of the book's many stories -- about a man named Ron Clifford, who was in the building that day helping one of the victims, and his sister Ruth.
"So he's getting information from her that he can communicate to the doctors, he communicates to her sister, who I also spoke with," Zuckoff said. "And Ron doesn't realize, of course, that his sister's on the plane that has just now struck the south tower above him. He feels a vibration when the plane hits the tower and it travels down to the ground, through the Marriott attached to the trade center."
Zuckoff's book includes never before released details about the victims, attackers and the buildings themselves. Zuckoff says he wrote the book to make sure the attacks don't start to fade from people's memories.
"Okay, we count four hijackings, 19 hijackers, nearly 3,000 dead. We know the numbers, but we have to know the names," Zuckoff said. "And that's the only way we're going to connect a generation who has no memories of it and to refresh those of us who were there, who lived through it, but now it starts to fade."
Hard copies of the book can be purchased in bookstores or online, and can be downloaded on Amazon Kindle.