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- Sept. 15 - The waters off Ground Zero came alive with more than 1,000 sailboats Saturday at a New York Harbor gathering that honored the victims of Sept. 11. |
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- Sept. 11 - With flurry of memorials scheduled to commemorate the September 11th attacks, New York and the rest of America is on guard against more terror. |
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- Sept. 11 - As the memorial ceremonies came to a close at ground zero, trumpeters played a solemn rendition of "Taps", and the Declaration Of Independence was read. |
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- Sept. 11 - President Bush, Defense Sec. Rumsfeld and other marked one year since that terrorist attacks at the recently restored Pentagon Wednesday. |
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- Sept. 11 - A solemn bell tolled 40 times at the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville Wednesday, one for each victim of that tragic flight. |
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- Sept. 11 - Silence fell on ground zero Wednesday morning, precisely a year from the moment when a terrorist-guided jetliner hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. |
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- Sept. 11 - In Washington D.C., President Bush led the nation Wednesday as it paused to remember the shattering terrorist attacks of one year ago. |
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- Sept. 11 - As part of the commemoration of those lost on 9/11 Governor George Pataki read the Gettysburg Address at ground zero. |
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- Sept. 11 - As America remembers those who died one year ago today, the F.D.N.Y. |
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- Sept. 11 - Watch a video montage of patriotism, as Americans show their pride in expressing their freedom. |
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- A French tourist got so fed up with having her chest wanded by airport security in the USA that she took off her shirt and bra to demonstrate her bomb-and-boxcutter-free chestular region. The airport was closed for 10 minutes. Under the USAPATRIOT Act, she faces up to three years in jail. Link (German-English translation here: Link) [via Boing Boing Blog] This would be funny if it weren't so friggin' sad. |
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- Lois McMaster Bujold. "I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] |
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