Sept. 11: 10 Years Later
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Frederick Co. health department plans bolstered after attack
If terrorists decided on a chemical/biological attack that could kill the most people with the least amount of effort, an obvious choice would be a fine anthrax powder, according to the Frederick County Health Department
Sept. 11 attacks encourage Md. muslims to reach out
A majority of Muslim Americans said their lives became more challenging in the decade that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new survey of Muslim attitudes in the United States.
D.C. Police: Suspicious activity tips up 60 percent
Reports of suspicious activity and vehicles in the nation's capital are up 60 percent in the wake of an investigation of a terror threat, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Saturday, and police are checking every report.
A decade later, Americans remember
Looking back on that morning 10 years ago, people frequently remark about how beautiful the weather was. How clear and blue the sky was. And how quickly and unexpectedly the day turned ugly.
10 years after Sept. 11: Is the nation safer?
Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland.
Terror attacks and their impact on birthdays
Verena Hepperle reports.
Remembering where you were on Sept. 11, 2001 and looking at security now
Sara Gilgore reports.
Fighter pilot recalls mission to stop 9/11 plane
Fighter pilot Heather "Lucky" Penney didn't have time to be scared. There was a hijacked commercial airliner headed to Washington, D.C., and she was ordered to stop it.
Generation goes from Sept. 11 classrooms to war
The U.S. Marine swings his metal detector, scanning debris, rocks and swirls of soil for any hints of concealed bombs as he leads the single-file patrol. Alert, pausing often, the troops act like ambassadors too, lobbing smiles and candy at Afghan children in adobe-lined alleyways.
Park offers special memories of Sept. 11 victims
"This memorial speaks to who they were as individuals," says Julia Caswell Daitch of a Montgomery County park created to remember family members who died in the terror attacks a decade ago.
Medal of Honor recipient fought for those who couldn't on 9/11
"My story is just one of millions," says retired Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer, and adds that to have done anything else at the time would have been "wrong. It was simple: My best friends, my brothers were getting shot at. I was doing my job."
An intel Q&A: How the US gets it, where it goes
U.S. intelligence in the struggle against terrorism comes in many forms, maddeningly general, improbably precise, a game of sorts with vast consequences for winner and loser.
9/11, minute by minute: Chaos and 1 man's escape
Close your eyes and picture Sept. 11. The memories are cauterized, familiar forever. The second plane banks and slides in, the fireball blooms, the towers peel away as if unzipped from the top.
9/11 heroes soothed and inspired a wounded nation
When volunteer John House shows people around the National Infantry Museum, he pauses next to an exhibit in the Vietnam-era section and points to one of the lifelike mannequins posed in a combat stance.
Ways to commemorate Sept. 11 in the D.C. region
Mike McCarthy, editor in chief of Washington Flyer Magazine
9/11 shaped military kids who grew up with war
Austin Trosper remembers panic on Sept. 11, 2001, as his mother and other parents emptied his 2nd grade class, fearing an attack on the Army post where he went to school.
Amid mud and security, Flight 93 dedication begins
Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Sarah McLachlan has sung her song of loss and remembrance, "I Will Remember You," during the dedication of the first phase of the Flight 93 National Memorial.
The Republicans' Weekly Address
The American spirit was not broken after the Sept. 11 attacks.
At Todd Beamer High School, students honor victims
Morning clouds disappeared and the sun shone on Todd Beamer High School as students gathered Friday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and those who lost their lives that day.
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