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WTC Steel Angel to Honor 9-Year-Old Arizona Shooting Victim Born on 9/11
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- A piece of World Trade Center steel is being molded into an angel in the memory of a girl who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and died in a barrage of gunfire in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The 5 1/2-foot-long fragment of an I-beam was to be picked up from a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday before being trucked to Arizona in time for an April 1 dedication ceremony. The Freedom's Steadfast Angel of Love statue will incorporate artifacts from the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines ...
World Trade Center Flag to Fly at Christina Green's Funeral
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe flag that was recovered from the World Trade Center will be on display at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and was killed in Saturday's shooting in Arizona. The Arizona Republic reports that the giant, 20-by-30 foot flag, which firefighters famously hoisted over the rubble of the World Trade Center, is headed to Tucson for Green's funeral on Thursday. New York City firefighter Jimmy Sands carried the flag with him from New York on a flight to Arizona on Tuesday evening. Mary Schwalm, AP The National 9/11 Flag will be displayed ...
Remembering 9/11 and the Night at Shea Stadium That Brought Everyone Together
By Steve Phillips - AOL NewsThe morning of September 11, 2001 started a bit overcast. I left home at my normal time but anticipated a very busy day at work because I had organizational telemeetings scheduled for the entire day. Every Mets minor league club had its own time window in which we were going to discuss each player in the organization and their progress over the minor league season. The big league club was on the road in Pittsburgh. Normally I would listen to any number of radio stations on my drive into work. As I was approaching the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which links the Bronx with Queens, I heard on a ...
NATO Chief Condemns Planned Quran Burning
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who once defended the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad, is condemning a Florida pastor's plan to burn Qurans on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, saying it could "have a negative impact on the security for our troops" fighting in Afghanistan. Rasmussen agreed with Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces there, who said the spectacle of Islam's holy book going up in flames could "endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort" to defeat the Taliban. "I think it's a disrespectful action," ...
New Documentary: Condi Rice Yelled at Bush on 9/11
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- Condoleezza Rice shouted on the phone at President George W. Bush during the initial chaos after the 9/11 attacks and ordered him to stay away from the nation's capital. Then she hung up on him. In a History Channel documentary that will be shown Thursday, two days before the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Rice says she got a phone call from the president after the second jetliner rammed the World Trade Center in New York. He was visiting a school in Florida and said he was coming back to Washington, where the Pentagon was struck by a third plane and rumors spread of ...
Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center two blocks away. "It's not an anti-mosque," Keller said of his proposed center, which would be the first physical church constructed by his online ministry, LivePrayer.com. "For lack of better terminology, it's an old-time Evangelistic center where we're ...
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