Ceremonies on Thursday morning honored the thousands who were killed in the deadly terror attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Even without plea deal, 9/11 suspects may never face a verdict
A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four others has thrown the cases into disarray
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Portland to hold ceremony Monday morning to honor victims of Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
The memorial ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday on the Eastern Promenade. Gov. Janet Mills has directed that flags be lowered on Monday to remember and honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Region to remember Sept. 11, POW/MIA Recognition Day
A 9/11 service will be held in Livermore Falls’ Union Park at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. POW/MIA Recognition Day will be remembered at the POW/MIA Memorial 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at the POW/MIA Memorial in Jay.
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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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‘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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‘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.
Posted inMaine, News
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.
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Soldier from Portland knew that 9/11 attacks would change his life
On Sept. 11, Todd Libby was a cable guy. The events of that day led him to a 20-year career in the military including a tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.