Volunteers package donated blood at the Southside Fitness Center, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. In response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon "prompted an overwhelming number of Department of Defense personnel and military family members in Europe to want to volunteer as blood donors to assist the survivors." Shortly after 8 AM (EST) on September 11, 2001 in an attempt to frighten the American people, terrorist mounted attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers and at the Pentagon. Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers and thousands on the ground
