9/11
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2021
U.S. marks 20 years since 9/11, in shadow of Afghan war’s end
The 9/11 anniversary commemoration at ground zero began with a tolling bell and a moment of silence, exactly 20 years after the start of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
Exclusive: 9/11 as seen from the Midcoast – an oral history
Those in the southern Midcoast – including shipbuilders, sailors and a now-U.S. Senator -- vividly recall in their own words the events of Sept. 11, 20 years later.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
Angus King recalls governing Maine during nation’s worst terrorist attack
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
20 years later, workers at Navy Base and BIW recall how 9/11 hijackings shook their world
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
Looking back on fateful first day, teacher says, ‘How it affected people is still palpable’
Caroline Patrie was launching a new career as a teacher on the day of the terrorist attacks. The excitement of her first day was replaced with a feeling of chaos and dread.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2021
‘It was complete annihilation’: Bath firefighter remembers working at Ground Zero
“What really threw us off was (the towers) were gone," Michael Clarke, a first responder in the 9/11 attacks, said. "It’s hard to ... see New York City on its knees.”
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2021
‘They didn’t know me or what I would do for this country’
Yasin Ahmady, who had come to the United States from Afghanistan 20 years before 9/11, is one of many Muslim Americans who suffered verbal and physical attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
‘Everything around was chaotic’: Topsham first responder recalls time in the New York Fire Department during 9/11
Twenty years after the tragedies of Sept. 11, Topsham paramedic and firefighter Elizabeth Reeves remembers the colleagues she lost.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
Brunswick, Topsham, Freeport hosting 9/11 memorials
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
For sisters of Mainer on doomed flight, ‘It’s the day our family changed forever’
James Roux, a Portland attorney, was on the hijacked plane that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center just after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.