Sept. 11: 10 Years Later
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Tillman's memory sparks action, not words
The south steps of Arizona State's football stadium became a shrine in the days after Pat Tillman's death, covered in flags and flowers, signs and mementos.
From Army-Navy to Iraq and Afghanistan
Not long after the second World Trade Center tower came down, Nolan Gordon's history professor at the U.S. Military Academy switched off the television and went back to his lesson.
For presidents, the legacy of Sept 11 has no end
The ramifications of the worst terrorist attack in American history live on, bridging the decade from George W. Bush to Barack Obama.
10-year Pearl Harbor anniversary reflects 1950s US
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, newspapers from Boston to Bakersfield, Calif., reached into the distant past to find the words to capture the moment for their front pages. One typical headline blared: "A New Day of Infamy."
10 years, 21,000 bone fragments, no 9/11 closure
His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 _ or any other trace of him.
Poor Filipinos have 9/11 victim to thank for homes
A street sign in Manila shows an American businesswoman and Sept. 11 victim smiling down on a community whose transformation would have warmed her heart: children frolicking on tidy brick alleys near brightly colored houses.
No boundaries in Smithsonian Sept. 11 exhibit
Artifacts from from all three sites are displayed on tables with no protective glass and no rope fence.
Newseum in D.C. 1st to show FBI evidence from 9/11
In the decade before 9/11, a period when terrorists bombed the World Trade Center for the first time in 1993 and then U.S. embassies in Africa, most Americans had never heard of Osama bin Laden.
Smithsonian acquires TSA items for 9/11 collection
One of the least popular pieces of security equipment since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is now part of the Smithsonian's collection at the National Museum of American History _ a metal detector from the Transportation Security Administration.
Sense of fear lingers in Okla. on 9/11 anniversary
Before Sept. 11, there was April 19 _ when a truck bomb sheared away one side of a federal building in middle America and proved that anyone, anywhere, can be attacked.
US lawmakers want cancer added to WTC disease list
A new medical study supports the argument for including cancers on a list of World Trade Center-linked diseases that qualify for assistance under the national Sept. 11 health program, federal lawmakers said Wednesday.
Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, 25, New York City, Fred Alger Management, Inc., World Trade Center.
Families to hold Pa. service for Flight 93 remains
Relatives of passengers and crew members who perished on United Airlines Flight 93 will hold a private funeral and reinterment service for unidentified remains at the crash site the day after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
US warns of 9/11, Hurricane Irene cyber scams
Homeland Security officials are warning the public to beware of email scams and possible cyberattacks related to Hurricane Irene and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Post-9/11, emergency radios still not connected
Amid the chaos of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, emergency responders found they could not communicate with each other. That problem persists 10 years later, according to a review of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations.
Court case lifts lid on secret post 9/11 flights
A hidden network of U.S. companies, coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, played a key role in the covert airlift that transported terrorism suspects and their American minders, according to newly disclosed documents in a New York business dispute between two aviation companies.
U.S. security intensifying as Sept. 11 date nears
As the nation prepares for the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks -- a date al-Qaida has cited as a potential opportunity to strike again -- security is intensifying at airports, train stations, nuclear plants and major sporting arenas around the country.
Memorial to 9/11 preaches vengeance and tolerance
Matthew Salenger etched 54 phrases in a circular piece of steel, building Arizona's Sept. 11 memorial one story at a time. He wanted everyone's story to be told.
Bomb-sniffing dogs, guards at the post-9/11 mall
A janitor spots an abandoned diaper bag lying on a table in the sprawling food court at the Mall of America. A bomb-sniffing dog and a security officer are there within minutes, examining the package while nearby shoppers are held a safe distance away.
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