A/N: Okay, so I know I mentioned this a few times already, but this isn't a story chapter. It's just going to be a bunch of interesting facts I've come across during my many months of research for this story.

- 411 Emergency Workers and First Responders died in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. This included 343 firefighters, 37 PAPD officers, 23 NYPD officers (14 being from the Emergency Service Unit, more than any other NYPD unit), and 8 Emergency Medical Technicians.

- As of January 2017, 99 NYPD officers have since died from 9/11 related illnesses, and the numbers will continue to rise.

- My character of Captian Aro Volturi was inspired by real ESU PO Kenny Winkler. He was stationed at the Command Post at the corner of Church and Vesey Street, because he didn't have time to change into his uniform and couldn't go into the towers. He was tasked with creating the Teams and keeping track of where the officers from ESU were. He kept 2 radios on at all times. One was for Special Operations, so he could hear what was happening in the rest of the city, and the other was for Tac-G, the frequency used strictly by ESU. During the collapse of the South Tower, he ducked behind a truck and in complete darkness as the dust surrounded him, he continued to try and maintain radio contact with the ESU teams.

- The top of the South Tower above the impact zone actually tilted just before the collapse. If you go to Google Images and type in South Tower Tilt, you can see it.

- A second or two before the North Tower collapsed, the antenna on top tilted as the roof gave way.

- Of the 14 ESU officers killed on 9/11, only seven of them were found.

- In Chapter 7 at the bottom, I made mention of a couple of survivors that had been located at Ground Zero. This was a reference to PAPD Officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno. Their story of survival was made into a movie directed by Oliver Stone, called World Trade Center. Nicolas Cage portrays McLoughlin and Michael Pena portrays Jimeno. The real Will Jimeno makes a cameo in the film as a PAPD officer.

- Over 1.8 million tons of debris was removed from Ground Zero over the course of 9 months.

- I'm sure everyone has seen the famous photograph of the 3 firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero on 9/11. However, there is a lesser known photo of another flag raising that occurred on the morning of September 12, 2001. In the photo, ESU Officer Richard Miller is attaching a flag to the former weather antenna from the North Tower, while ESU Officer Richard Hartigan and another officer hold onto the ladder, while other responders stop and watch.

- Former NYPD Detective and photographer, John Botte, had access to Ground Zero as a First Responder, and captured the aftermath of the attacks in many stunning black and white photographs that are not very well known. (Having seen some of them myself on his website, I can only describe them as tragically beautiful, and are worth checking out.) Just Google John Botte Photos, and the link to his website should be at the top.

- Over $1 Billion dollars was spent to replace equipment and emergency response vehicles damaged or destroyed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

- Immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center, it was originally decided that private ferries would transport the bodies of the victims to the Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, and the Staten Island Yankee Stadium. However, they were never used as temporary morgues, as it was soon apparent that no bodies would be recovered right away. The private ferries were instead used to transport the living out of Manhattan.

- If you visit the 9/11 Museum website, under the Museum tab, there is an option that says, Explore Online Collection. Here can view some of the objects recovered from the debris, including the Survivor's Window mentioned in Chapter 12.

- On the North Pool of the Memorial, the names of the victims from the North Tower, Flight 11, and the 1993 Bombing can be found. On the South Pool, the names of the victims from the South Tower, First Responders, The Pentagon, Flight 175, Flight 77, and Flight 93 are found. On the Museum's website, there is an interactive feature that allows you to search for names on the Memorials and look through them.

- As of January 2017, of the 2,983 victims who died in the attacks, only five of them are not represented by pictures on the memorial wall inside the 9/11 Museum. Three of them are not shown due to the request of their families, but photos of the other two people have never been located.

- Recent studies have shown that First Responders and other emergency workers diagnosed with PTSD have a higher chance of developing other cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's and Dementia.

- The plumes of smoke from the burning Twin Towers could be seen from space.

- Nearly 60 types of cancer have been linked to 9/11.

- The last survivor pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center was found by a police dog named Trakr. Trakr was a German Shepherd. Before he passed away in 2009 at the age of 14, his owner and handler entered a competition to have him cloned and won. His DNA was used to create 5 clones. Their names are Trusst, Solace, Valor, Prodigy, and Deja Vu.

A/N: Well, we've reached the end of this story. It's been a long couple of months worth of research to get here. Learning about this stuff has taught me to appreciate life in ways I never did before.

I'm glad to finally finish this though.

I want to thank everyone for reading, following, and favoriting this story. It means a lot to me. :)