Children look to adults as 9/11 anniversary approaches
From the time word spread of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, young people were looking to adults to put things in perspective. Ten years later, children will again be looking to adults for guidance. Pat...
View ArticleA 9/11 street teacher at the scene of the crime
NEW YORK — The passengers from New Jersey spill out of the train station and across the blistering sidewalks of Lower Manhattan, oblivious to one another as they steamroll toward their destinations....
View ArticleJersey Girls who emerged after 9/11 stay activists
TRENTON, N.J. — The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 turned them into widows and the four Jersey Girls, as they became known, turned themselves into activists. A decade after the attacks, at least...
View ArticleFirst casualty of war? “Everything”
They were so young the first time they said goodbye, a couple of newlyweds who had never been through war. He forgot his gas mask, and she had to rush home to get it as if all he had left in the...
View ArticleThose with birthdays on that fateful date learn to cope
Maria Vargas was rushing to work and ignored the ringing telephone, thinking it was just early-morning birthday greetings from family and friends. She arrived at work in time to give an orientation but...
View ArticleAfter 9/11, searching for American optimism
NEW YORK — Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue...
View ArticlePost-9/11 politics of Rudy Giuliani
NEW YORK — He was the living symbol of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a hero to a traumatized nation seeking leadership in a time of crisis. Walking miles through the streets of Manhattan, Mayor...
View ArticleENC resident recalls seeing Pentagon in flames
Barb Whiteman sat at her desk at Whiteman’s Engraving looking over a handful of pictures taken on a day she’ll never forget. Whiteman and then Havelock Chamber of Commerce director Bonnie Whiting were...
View ArticleN.C. governor remembers Sept. 11, first responders
RALEIGH — North Carolina officials are staying watchful about the threat of terrorism 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, especially with recent reports about a new credible threat surfacing as the...
View ArticleChurches plan special services, prayers for 9/11 anniversary
The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is Sunday, and area churches and pastors are planning special services and prayers. Cherry Point Baptist Church on Church Road in Havelock has two...
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