I read about the B-25 and the Empire State Building when I was ten or so, about fifteen years after it happened.
When I first heard about the WTC my first thought was "Oh, no! Not again!"
As to the collapsing and Building 7, we only recently had a huge thread on this. All the angles were covered. Wolferz, I don't know how you missed it.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=205143