Articles filed under September 11
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DuPage County observes Sept. 11Sep 11, 2011 6:00 am - It is a day we wish never happened. It is a day we wish we could forget. But it is a day we will always remember. Observances are scheduled across DuPage County today t...
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Essay: Reliving instead of remembering Sept. 11Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — The planes will crash. You'll hear police sirens, the voices of those who lived and many who didn't. You'll feel like you're in the buildings. And then they'l...
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Essay: 9/11 brought us together, but was it unity?Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — We were one. Or so it seemed — for a while, at least. “America is united,” President George W. Bush proclaimed a decade ago after the horror that terrorists...
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After 9/11, flight attendant still most at home in the skySep 11, 2011 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — On the 3,605th day after Dannye Drake-Ivey could have died, she baked cookies. She baked them in the little galley kitchen of the passenger jet flying from ...
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U.S. converts to Islam consider life since 9/11Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - DEARBORN, Mich. — For Caleb Carter, the road to becoming a Muslim took years. Sept. 11, 2001, was a turning point — specifically his high school teacher’s hostile reacti...
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Kids with Bush on 9/11 saw change sweep over himSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - SARASOTA, Fla. — The 16 children who shared modern America’s darkest moment with President George W. Bush are high school seniors now — football players, ROTC members, t...
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After 9/11, global solidarity was short-livedSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - The Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace played “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was photographed donating blood. Cuba offered use of its airsp...
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Lost on Sept. 11: A generation without dragonsSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - Looking back on that morning that began so blue and beautiful a decade ago, we're somehow reminded now of children's poetry. A century before, English poet Francis Thomp...
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A new way to remember Sept. 11Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - Ten years ago Sunday, I lost my mother, Norma Lang Steuerle, when American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon. Much has changed in the world and in my life o...
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Twin finds solace in woman who shared his 9/11 painSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - WASHINGTON -- Almost 10 years later, Art Powell is by himself in his garage, looking through storage bins when he finds a lavender envelope, palm-size and almost square....