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9/11

Attack on a normal seeming morning
It was a clear and seemingly normal Tuesday morning in America. The New York City buses and subway trains were running on schedule. President George W. Bush sat in a Florida classroom, visiting with elementary students. Todd Beamer, Sandy Bradshaw and 43 others boarded United Flight 93, bound for California. It was business as usual at the World Trade Center as well, wh...

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Lesson learned, lesson forgotten
It is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since that horrible day when our country was attacked. The world stopped. And everything changed. Certainly, no one can forget where they were or what they were doing when they learned the news: Foreign terrorists had struck America, targeting some of our nation's most visible symbols and killing nearly 3,000 people. The a...

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A decade later, 9/11 still a reckoning jolt
LUMBERTON - Ten years after the second-deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil, Americans are feeling the effects of nearly 3,000 deaths and a heightened awareness that no matter how economically and militarily strong a country becomes, it can never be invincible. U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, a Democrat from Lumberton who was in Washington D.C. that historic day, remembers how ...

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Freedom Tower rising
Ten years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, construction continues at the site where more than 2,600 people lost their lives in the worst strike on American soil in the nation’s history. In November 2001, as Americans across the country continued to mourn the many lives lost, then New York Governor George Pataki began the process of renewal with the est...

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