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‘Like an eternal flame’: Americans honor the fallen on 20th anniversary of Sept. 11

‘Like an eternal flame’: Americans honor the fallen on 20th anniversary of Sept. 11

TYLER CLIFFORD and NATHAN LAYNE TWENTY years after hijackers slammed airplanes into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, Americans came together on Saturday to remember the nearly 3,000 killed on September 11, 2001, and reflect on how the attacks reshaped society and tipped the country into an intractable war. As a first responder struck a silver bell, the ceremony at the September 11 Memorial in lower Manhattan began with a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT (1246 GMT), the exact time the first of two planes flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers.…
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The grief born on 9/11 forever changed the lives of these widows

The grief born on 9/11 forever changed the lives of these widows

ROSELLE CHEN  CINDY McGinty's grief was born on the morning of September 11, 2001, when two hijacked planes slammed into New York City's World Trade Center, killing her husband Mike McGinty. Mike was on the 99th floor of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into floors 93-99. "People often say to me, 'Well, it's been 20 years.' But it never leaves you, it never leaves you," she said from her home in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Cindy, now 64, recounts how she had to be strong for their children David and Daniel, who were 7 and 8 at the…
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20 years later, survivor still carries 9/11 with him

20 years later, survivor still carries 9/11 with him

SOREN LARSON  TOM Canavan was buried alive at the World Trade Center site when the twin towers collapsed 20 years ago on September 11. He was on the 47th floor of the North Tower on a conference call in his boss' office when the American Airlines Flight 11 plane struck his building at 8:46 a.m. Canavan and his colleagues from First Union, a brokerage firm, began to slowly descend the stairwells to safety, passing police, firefighters and Port Authority rescue workers on their way up to try to rescue wounded survivors. While they were trying to escape, a second plane…
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From Shanksville’s scorched woods, two arborists emerged as unsung heroes of 9/11

From Shanksville’s scorched woods, two arborists emerged as unsung heroes of 9/11

JONATHAN ALLEN THE hemlock grove where United Airlines Flight 93 hurtled to the ground in rural Pennsylvania still haunts Mark Trautman and Ben Haupt 20 years later. Before the al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001, the local arborists climbed trees only to take down branches. When the hijacked airliner slammed into the soil in a fiery explosion, turning the woods near Shanksville into a gruesome crime scene suspended above the ground, the two men would be called in for a task that transformed their lives. For nearly a week, they clambered through the blackened canopy garlanded with wreckage and…
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Biden orders declassification review of documents related to Sept. 11 attacks

Biden orders declassification review of documents related to Sept. 11 attacks

JEFF MASON AND JAN WOLFE U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday ordered the Department of Justice to review documents from the FBI's probe into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for declassification and release. "When I ran for president, I made a commitment to ensuring transparency regarding the declassification of documents on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America," Biden said in a statement. "As we approach the 20th anniversary of that tragic day, I am honoring that commitment." The order requires U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to make the declassified documents public over the next six months as it…
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Trump, Biden take break from campaign to commemorate 9/11 anniversary

Trump, Biden take break from campaign to commemorate 9/11 anniversary

TREVOR HUNNICUTT  and JEFF MASON PRESIDENT Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden separately commemorated the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Friday, taking a pause from campaigning to honor the almost 3,000 victims killed in the single-most deadliest assault on U.S. soil. Biden participated in a solemn morning memorial ceremony in New York, where al Qaeda operatives destroyed the World Trade Center with two hijacked jets. Trump began the day in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where passengers crashed a hijacked plane believed to have been headed to the U.S. Capitol or White House. Biden and Vice President Mike Pence,…
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