World Trade Center

It seems to me that the there are many persons, including the author of the editorial ("Freedom and religion," Aug.5), that have very short or convenient memories. I want to quote a section of the text: "That's just the opposite of the fanaticism and fear motivating the Sept. 11 attackers, a tiny minority of disaffected, violent extremists whose twisted views are a perversion of Islam. They no more represent the vast majority of Muslims worldwide than the Ku Klux Klan represents the worlds Christians.

In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation. " "We are the force for progress, prosperity and peace," Mrs. Clinton elaborated. "And because we have to get it right for ourselves. " Ms. Albright had put it this way: "If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation.

The Middle River Volunteer Ambulance Rescue Co. has acquired a piece of rusted steel from the fallen World Trade Center with plans to make the artifact the focal point of its lobby. Volunteers will make a temporary public display for the 2- by 2-foot section, until a decision is reached on a permanent placement. The artifact, which members say will serve as a visible reminder of the sacrifices made on Sept. 11, 2001, came to the station on Leland Avenue after a year of negotiations with the Port Authority in New York and New Jersey.

Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process. " Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that was hijacked by five al-Qaida operatives and flown into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The Potomac man was 40. But any hope that the arraignments of Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators might bring some healing to family members, a decade after they lost loved ones in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, was stymied Saturday by a halting proceeding in which the defendants refused to participate.

A conservation team from Maryland's archaeology lab is in Manhattan this week, working to recover the remains of a wooden sailing ship found buried at the World Trade Center site. The ship's fragile timbers are being extracted from the muck, wrapped, labeled and packed for shipment next week to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, part of the Jefferson-Patterson Park & Museum in St. Leonard, where they will be treated so they may eventually be reassembled. The lab was built, in part, to conserve and store artifacts recovered from Maryland waters.

City and fire officials unveiled a poignant piece of American history on Sunday which will remind students at Baltimore's fire training academy of the commitments they make in the line of duty. A section of I-beam salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 will be placed in the auditorium where they gather daily. The two-ton segment will become part of a permanent memorial as part of a $9.5 million renovation of the training center campus.

Two beams from the wreckage of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City have made their way to Anne Arundel County. A pair of beams from the wreckage of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City have made their way to Anne Arundel County. The beams will be used for a county memorial to the police and firefighters who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, which killed more than 3,000. County Executive John R. Leopold has created a committee to review applications for a design.

It could have been so much worse for May Davis Group Inc. The Baltimore investment banking firm initially feared nearly all its 52 employees on the 87th floor of 1 World Trade Center had been killed. As it turned out, May Davis lost one. Now the company is trying to pull itself together in a temporary office at 120 Broadway, a short walk from the mound of rubble called ground zero. The job is daunting. Files are gone, phone systems don't work, some business has vanished and some employees are too afraid to come back to work.

Alison Geyh, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health who studied air pollution in Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, died of cancer Feb. 20 at her Ruxton home. She was 52. Born Alison Daniel in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, where her father was on assignment in the military, she was raised in Anaheim, Calif. As a teenager she was a Cinderella Dancer in the Disneyland Electric Light parade. She remained active in dancing and was also a bicyclist.

NEW YORK -- Sitting in a chair just after 7:30 a.m., beneath the amber glow of a hallway light, Carol Ashley leans over and ties the laces of an old pair of sneakers. She slips her good shoes into her purse. She knows it will be muddy in the pit. Outside, the sky is gray and rain slaps her windows. Six years ago on a Tuesday morning nothing like this one, Ashley's 25-year-old daughter, Janice, stood in this hallway wearing a taupe dress suit, a silver watch and her great-grandmother's pearl earrings.

Members of the public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects Saturday at Fort Meade, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. Mohammed and his co-defendants are to be arraigned at Guantanamo Bay on charges of terrorism and murder in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 193. Fort Meade is one of four military bases scheduled to receive a secure, closed-circuit television feed of the proceedings, Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale said.

Last Sunday, we all focused on a day of remembrance. Many of us were lucky to have our loved ones return home on that fateful Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Others were not so lucky. Each of us will forever remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard about the planes striking the World Trade Center's towers, in New York, and then hitting much closer to home as one struck the Pentagon. Our family in particular received a wake-up call that day. Both my husband, John; and my brother, Eric; worked in the Pentagon.

Ten years later and we still can't forget. More than 350 firemen and women, police officer, friends, relatives and nearby residents gathered inside the still-rather-new Darlington Volunteer Fire Company station, 1520 Whiteford Road, on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to commemorate a special memorial outside the station dedicated to those who died and those who survived that day, as well as the people in the community who...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and serves as a point to measure the indelible impact that day has had on the American people. In recent weeks, much has been written and broadcast about the shock and horror of that day and its lasting influence on public policy and even the national psyche. Such a commemoration is only natural, given the gravity of that day. Perhaps, for some, there is a catharsis to be found in reliving those fateful hours when so many watched in disbelief as two passenger jets struck the World Trade Center buildings in New York, a third hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a rural Pennsylvania farm field.

Beautiful September days are difficult for Basmattie Bishundat. Her son was killed on one 10 years ago. "Sometimes I hate those days," said the Waldorf woman, whose son, Romeo, was three days short of his 24th birthday when Flight 77 struck the Pentagon, where he worked. As she and other Marylanders gathered Sunday in Baltimore to dedicate the state's memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the weather abruptly shifted from sunshine to a rain that struck some there as absolutely fitting.

Michael Chrvala's current students were 3 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. They didn't see the hijacked airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, or the plane plow into Pentagon, and they didn't hear news reports about the jet that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. Nevertheless, their eigth-grade teacher at Shiloh Middle School is determined to tell them the story of that tragic day. Chrvala, who has taught social studies...

They canceled an entire week of professional football over it. People stocked their basements with crates of bottled water. Gun sales soared. Paul McCartney got so upset, he purged his soul in song -- caterwauling "Freeeeeeedom!" at any venue that would have him. Now, Americans seem to be over it. The slaughter of Sept. 11 is just six months behind us, but the tabloids are now breathless over Rosie O'Donnell coming out of the closet. Is it a mark of national resilience? Or a sign of callousness?

Thomas Stanton,Clarksville On Sept. 11, 2001, I was working in my office at 605 Main St. in Laurel. Like every other typical workday, I was coordinating our fire protection engineers through project work until I heard on the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I thought this odd but pretty serious, so I went upstairs to the Laurel Leader office to look at their TV set and get further information. While there with now-editor Melanie Dzwonchyk, then-editor Joe Murchison and many other staff, we all witnessed the second plane hit the second tower.