World Trade Center - The African Mirror

Sep

2021

‘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.…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

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

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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…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

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

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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…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

Era ends, war looms as U.S. forces quit main base in Afghanistan

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AMERICAN troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan yesterday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried 20 years ago in a country that the top U.S. commander has warned may descend into civil war without them. "All American soldiers and members of NATO forces have left the Bagram airbase," said a senior U.S. security official on condition of anonymity. Though a few more troops have yet to withdraw from another base in the capital Kabul, the Bagram pullout brings an effective end to the longest war in American history. The base, an hour's…