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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nyfd, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Special Forces, George W. Bush, 9/11 Anniversary, Nypd, 9/11, Taliban, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden, World News

One must question at this point, on this day of the year especially, whether the power of the U.S. government, diplomatic and military, has been used in the best way to honor our own fallen of 9/11

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An Historian's Prescient View of 9/11

Al Eisele | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Media Coverage, The Hill, Katie Couric, September 11th, David McCullough, Home News

On the morning of Sept. 11, David McCullough called me to say that an airplane had just crashed into the World Trade Tower. Here is the story that my colleagues and I filed in the Sept. 12 issue of The Hill.

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Left, Right & Center: ObamaCare, No to Afghanistan, and 9/11 Eight Years On

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Obama Speech, Obamacare, Afghanistan, Health Care, 9/11 Anniversary, Politics News

A truly substantive discussion of Swiss and Massachusetts models for health care. And on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, is the country any safer?

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9/11 Film Review of Amreeka: Drama of the Arab-Christian Experience in America Also Strikes Notes of Heart and Humor

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Palestinian-Americans, Arrested Development, Independent Films, National Geographic, Hiam Abbass, Films, Arab-Americans, 9/11, Nisreen Faour, Babel, Munich, The Immigrant Experience, Cherien Dabis, Lemon Tree, Lebanese-Americans, Melkar Muallem, Women Directors, Alia Shawkat, The Visitor, Amreeka, Jordanian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Arab-Christians, Yussef-Abu-Warda, Arab-Muslims, Entertainment News

Amreeka is an artful, moving testimony to the perils of making assumptions about individuals or groups. It is a is a film of impeccable taste that unites instead of divides.

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Michael Williams, Delta Passenger, Caught Carrying Gun On 9/11 At LaGuardia

NBC New York | Jonathan Dienst | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Laguardia Security, Delta Airlines, LaGuardia Airport, 9/11, Laguardia Airport Security, Post-911 Security, Airport Security, Delta, Michael Williams, New York News

As New York remembered the 9/11 attacks, a man with a loaded handgun tried to board a Delta Airlines flight at LaGuardia Airport, authorities said. ...

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The Unedited Truth: Why MSNBC Re-Airs 9/11 Coverage

Dan Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Dan Abrams, Msnbc, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Media Coverage, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Msnbc, Twin Towers, Ground Zero, Media News

Some have called it gruesome or ghoulish, even referring to it as "death porn." Maybe so, but it also really happened.

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9/11 Remembered: Photos From The Day (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Rain mixed with tears in New York today as mourners commemorated the 8th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Below are images from the memoria...

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Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News

The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.

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9/11 Eight Years After

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, First Responders, Swiftboating, Liberty, Impeachment, War, 9/11, 9/11 Commission, Security, Torture, September 11, Politics News

It was not and is not inevitable that we demonize each other when, quite frankly -- we are not the problem -- the terrorists are.

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CNN's Sloppy Reportage Needlessly Panics Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Coast Guard Potomac, Video, Cnn, CNN Coast Guard, Media Criticism, 9/11, Coast Guard, Media News, September 11th, Media News

Thanks to CNN's overactive imagination, news consumers experienced a brief dose of 9/11 nostalgia panic as a routine Coast Guard training exercise magically transformed into a touch-and-go bit of terrorist interdiction on the high seas!

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Eight Years After 9/11, Does Afghanistan Matter?

David Latt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Women's Rights, George Will, Taliban, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, President Obama, Politics News

If the Taliban retake the country, the fate of Afghanistan's women and girls is easy to imagine. They will not be educated. Their schools will be closed or burned to the ground. They will be persecuted.

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Sacred Memories: A 9/11 Ritual

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: 9/11, World Trade Center, New York, 9/11 Anniversary, Living News

So what message would I like to send out today 9/11? No words at all. Simply a chant of actual final cell phone conversations of people, who simply and heroically witnessed a yearning to love.

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This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve

Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

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To see people from all walks of life take up service as a way to remember the tragedy of 9/11 is beauty from ashes. It is also part of the solution that will put our nation on the road to recovery, permanently.

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Interview with NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler - 9/11 Then And Now

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Edward Skyler has worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg since before his election, and was actively campaigning for the candidate when the 9/11 attacks t...

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9/11 Mourners Observe Moment Of Silence As Bells Toll

Huffington Post/AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Cold rain mixed with tears as mourners collected under umbrellas and a dreary sky Friday to mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. ...

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9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Cia, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Iraq, September 11th, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News

Today, America needs to reassess what has been done in the name of the victims of 9/11: two horrible and unwinnable wars.

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Coast Guard's Sept. 11 Training Exercise Sparks Confusion In D.C.

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A morning of remembrance turned into one of flashbacks, fear and media missteps Friday when a Coast Guard exercise – unfoldin...

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9/11 iPhone App Remembers Terrorist Attacks

Mashable | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Iphone, 9/11, iPhone App, Terrorist Attack, Memorial, September 11th, 9/11 Anniversary, Smart Phone, Technology News

To help you recall and remember what occurred eight years ago today, there's an app called "9/11 Numbers" which brings the sobering realities of Septe...

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#Whereiwas: Twitter Users Share 9/11 Memories

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Twitter users are taking to the Internet today to share memories of where they were on September 11th, 2001. Scroll down to see a real-time feed of...

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9/11 Memories: Submit Your Photos And Stories

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Eight years ago today, the worst terrorist attack in United States history destroyed twin emblems of our country, killed nearly three thousand people,...

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9/11 + 8: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Abdullah Abdullah, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mossad, Iran, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Cairo, Barack Obama, Germany, Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Northern Alliance, Tehran, Iraq, Israel, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Torture, Video, World News

Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.

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Most Americans Wish The 9/11 Families Peace Today. And Then There's Glenn Beck.

James Boyce | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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As emotional as 9/11 was for all of us, nothing compares to what families who lost a loved one experienced that day. A fact that is totally lost on Glenn Beck.

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U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Run To Remember 9/11

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Many of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their mid-teens when they watched the planes hit the W...

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Commemorate 9/11 With A New Dollar Coin?

New York Times | Sewell Chan | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerrold L. Nadler, United States Mint, 9/11 Commemoration, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, 9/11 Dollar Coin, World Trade Center, 9/11 Commemoration Coin, Jerrold Nadler, New York News

Representative Jerrold L. Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat whose district includes ground zero, introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Unite...

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President Obama On 9/11 Anniversary: Every Year On This Day, We Are All New Yorkers

New York Daily News | President Barack Obama | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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Eight years ago, on an ordinary Tuesday morning, nearly 3,000 lives were lost in the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. It was an even...

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